CULTUREEDIT AUCTION #3
Rainer Wolter
Rainer Wolter, Read between the lines, 2025
Details
Dimensions: 30.5" wide x 22" high
A CROPPED MALE FORM—REDUCED TO PURE SHAPE AND SUGGESTION—EMERGES IN BLACK INK AND COPPER FOIL. THE TORSO IS SPARE, THE LEGS OPEN. THE FOCAL POINT: A SUBTLE ERECTION, VEILED BENEATH A FIELD OF HAND-DRAWN LINES.
THE LINEWORK OF THE UNDERWEAR DISTORTS AND OBSCURES, ASKING THE VIEWER TO FILL IN WHAT IS CONCEALED. LIKE THE METAPHORICAL “LINES” WE ARE TAUGHT TO FOLLOW—SPOKEN OR IMPLIED—THE REALITY BENEATH IS NEVER FULLY SEEN, ONLY IMPLIED.
COPPER ACCENTS TRACE THE BODY’S EDGES, SHARP YET FRAGILE, AND WILL PATINA WITH TIME, MUCH LIKE SKIN, MUCH LIKE MEMORY. “READ BETWEEN THE LINES” EXPLORES THE SLIPPERY SPACE BETWEEN BEAUTY AND EROTICISM, TRUTH AND PERFORMANCE, INVITATION AND BOUNDARY.
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CULTUREEDIT AUCTION #3
Rainer Wolter
Queer creator, collector, tinkerer raised in lederhosen with a pet buffalo on a floral farm in rural Pennsylvania by an eccentric immigrant father and a defiantly strong mother. Through textiles and fibers, their work challenges gender norms, intertwining tradition, identity and subversion.
