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 about me

1963
MASTER OF ARTS   Institute Saint Lucas Ghent - 1986 Belgium.

I would describe my work as ... An interaction of the psyche, invisible tensions, an accumulation of thoughts, a kind of spiritual immersion.
My work has nothing to do with the outside world and is not intended as a message, but the interaction with the viewer is of great importance.
It is the perception of what is going on in my struggle to contain the intangible, a love game in which the material is only a means to capture the image that is going on inside and imposes itself. 
The virtue I create in uniting the paint with its unique mass and the obvious material ( anything that comes my way and finds me somewhat uninviting, usually disposable in which I see poetry.), the spontaneous chemistry that emerges takes me to another dimension, the futility of wanting to capture an image that imposes itself on my mind because another image is already imposing itself. 
This is also why the work has so many phases due to constant repainting, that it begins to look more and more like a bas-relief and becomes heavy. The immense need and necessity to want to capture this. The constant struggle to keep this inner necessity under control. A form of psychic masochism of thoughts that stems from my own being.
I would say. The work is never finished and subject to change through which the form is recreated and leads its own plastic life. 
I have to discipline myself to stop in time in the production process so that the power that I want to emanate from it is not lost.

Max Reinert
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