The central theme of my work is the search for the fleeting in the stability, the transient in the permanence.

My artistic work, painting, is based on the influence of sculpture during my studies at the academy of fine arts in Düsseldorf/Germany. Body-image relationships, transitions and transformations, the breaking up of identities, spatial references and the dissolution of boundaries between artistic genres are core themes. It is above all the philosophical question of existence that drive my work in the various groups of works, especially with regard to the medium of painting as body language, trace and memory. Pictorial space and bodily space are dimensions in which I question the phenomenon of painting, often on the wrong track, beyond a reproducing 'peinture': using experiment and chance to track down the appearance of forms. The central theme of my work is the search for the fleeting in the stability, the transient in the permanence.

„Hinrichs' work is entrenched in philosophy and classical music. In the pictorial space of his paintings, sound, word and gesture come together to form a symphony of pulsating coloured forms. His paintings dispense of any allegiance to concrete form. Often any resulting imagery that emerges from his rapid scriptural strokes are a natural by-product of his energetic and intuitive technique. This involves lengthy periods of creating and shaping coloured forms, which he then removes or scrapes away, only to reapply. All the while, a series of spontaneous micro decisions he makes with his tools along the way, triggers a multitude of coincidences or happy accidents.

Hinrichs prefers to understand images as a transition, as space-filling objects. His paintings have come into being from the space created within the painter during his lengthy applications of paint to the canvas surface. His use of colour, plastic resins and marble dust adds texture and surface to this powerful work. His mastery lies in what he removes rather than in what remains. This work celebrates his unequivocal devotion to the sensuous and intimate dialogue an artist can have with paint“. (Andreas Steffens)