Original letter and three handwritten installation plans for the Bodyworks exhibition, Chicago 1975.

(Hamburg).: N.p., (1975).. Four handwritten sheets, each folded twice inside airmail envelope.. (11.3 x 16 cm) envelope.. Klaus Rinke is a pioneer of performance and action art, with his works exploring the relationship between the body in space and time, though the use of sequential photographic works. Having already garnered plaudits through his participation in exhibitions at MoMA, New York (in 1970 and 1973), the Documenta 5 in Kassel (1972), and at the XII. São Paulo Biennial (1973), Rinke was then to participate at the groundbreaking Bodyworks show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1975. Presented here is a series of handwritten documents mailed by Rinke to the Bodyworks exhibition curator, Ira Licht, prior to the exhibition. Includes a short signed letter from Rinke, dated 19 Feb 1975: “Dear Ira Licht, Today I shipped the photographs via Hasenkamp and I hope they will arrive soon in Chicago. Please frame them with plexiglass sheets in order to be protected. Sincerely yours, Klaus Rinke”. The letter is accompanied by three further sheets, each with annotated sketches detailing Rinke’s preferred hanging plans for each of his three major photographic sequences to be exhibited in Chicago: Mutations (1970), Durchs bildformatgehen (1972), and Zeitpunktueller Standortwechsel (1972).