Photorealism: Art or Craft? Richard Estes at MAD
Sergej Jensen
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Serjei Jensen’s extensive range of materials and formal references produces works that embody the magnitude of sculpture despite their two-dimensional reality. The artist studied under Thomas Bayrle and is heavily influenced by his own participation in music, film, and collaborative performance in addition to his studio art practice. Using textiles including silk, burlap, wool, and linen, he subjects the surfaces of his artworks to dyes, stains, and bleaches. They are stretched and exposed to the elements—translating the gestural human mark into prismatic processes. These hodgepodge works are reminiscent of 20th century Modernism in their blunt aesthetic and Dada sculpture. The resultant lyrical compositions walk the line between representation and abstraction in what Jensen refers to as “painting without paint.”
The artist has exhibited his work at Sculpture Center, New York, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Kunstwerke Berlin, Germany, MoMA PS 1, New York, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, Kunsthalle Bergen, Norway, Malmo Konsthall, Sweden, and Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany, among many other venues. He has performed at Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Museum Fridericaneum, Kassel, and Micros Museum, Zurich, to name a few. Jensen participated in the Berlin Biennial and the Whitney Biennial in 2006, and the Sao Paulo Biennial …
Serjei Jensen’s extensive range of materials and formal references produces works that embody the magnitude of sculpture despite their two-dimensional reality. The artist studied under Thomas Bayrle and is heavily influenced by his own participation in music, film, and collaborative performance in addition to his studio art practice. Using textiles including silk, burlap, wool, and linen, he subjects the surfaces of his artworks to dyes, stains, and bleaches. They are stretched and exposed to the elements—translating the gestural human mark into prismatic processes. These hodgepodge works are reminiscent of 20th century Modernism in their blunt aesthetic and Dada sculpture. The resultant lyrical compositions walk the line between representation and abstraction in what Jensen refers to as “painting without paint.”
The artist has exhibited his work at Sculpture Center, New York, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Kunstwerke Berlin, Germany, MoMA PS 1, New York, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, Kunsthalle Bergen, Norway, Malmo Konsthall, Sweden, and Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany, among many other venues. He has performed at Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Museum Fridericaneum, Kassel, and Micros Museum, Zurich, to name a few. Jensen participated in the Berlin Biennial and the Whitney Biennial in 2006, and the Sao Paulo Biennial in 2004. He was awarded the Fred Thinner Prize in 2013.
Born 1973
Hometown Maglegaard, Denmark
Lives and Works New York, NY and Berlin, Germany
Education
Städelschule, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt
Works Available for Purchase
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