In the world of Rilla and Steve, looming spirits offer warming bear hugs, embarrassed aliens meekly declare their lack of understanding and summertime utopias protrude through windows. Employing simple forms and using the techniques of folk art and craft, the artists offer a journey into almost familiar memories.

The astounding quality of Rinzen's work is consistent throughout a variety of media from illustration and graphic design to motion graphics, fashion, interiors and music: A warm and inviting blend of illustration, painting, drawings, objects and vector graphics.

Rinzen are perhaps best known for their collaborative experiments – forming as a result of their RMX project in 2000, which borrowed from the Surrealist's Exquisite Corpse and the prevalence of music remixing at the time. The second incarnation of this project, RMX Extended Play (published by Die-Gestalten Verlag and exhibited in Germany, Australia, Hong Kong and Taiwan), embraced the concept of international collaboration with results that were as surprising to the creators as the viewers. This exploration continues in a triumph over the tyranny of distance, in 2004 yielding a sequence of reworked puppets exhibited at C/O Berlin as part of the Pictoplasma Conference in October that year.

The collective's work, created individually and in a variety of different groupings, has been widely published, seen in over 100 books and magazines from the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Spain, Hong Kong and Japan. Their large scale artwork has been installed in Tokyo's Zero Gate, their posters and record covers exhibited at the Louvre in Paris and their visuals incorporated into the shows of electronic musicians such as Kid606.

> follow this link to an overview of Rinzen's work sold at our gallery

more information:
>>> press release, pdf, in english
>>> artist website