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Like all abstract painters of his generation, Jens Wolf is faced with the question of the meaning that form – in this case geometric form – has for us today. Though he deals with the question of surface and ground, of colour, of the limits of painting, as did the 1950s american abstract painters to whom he occasionally directly refers (Frank Stella, Barnett Newman), he does not follow them in looking to neutralize the picture plane.
Quite the opposite: he (re)introduces imperfections (the roughness and the patterns of the wooden support, breaks) which amplify the painting’s materiality and our perceptual sensations. The forms that Jens Wolf paints, off-centre or cut short by the broken edges of the support, seem spatially and temporally unstable. This opens up an imaginative space for the viewer. Whether we take them to be sketches or to be rebuses, these paintings propose a sensorial experience being played out in the “here-and-now”. The exhibition at the Grand Café brings together a group of older and recent works, and unveils a wall-painting created for the event.
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Artworks
35 x 50 cm
Courtesy Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris and Art Contemporain, Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg
35 x 50 cm
Courtesy Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris and Art Contemporain, Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg
170 x 240 cm
Courtesy Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris and Art Contemporain, Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg
87 x 115 cm
Courtesy Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris and Art Contemporain, Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg
192 x 140 cm
Courtesy Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris and Art Contemporain, Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg
140 x 200 cm
Courtesy Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris and Art Contemporain, Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg
195 x 140 cm
Courtesy Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris and Art Contemporain, Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg
225 x 170 cm
Courtesy Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris and Art Contemporain, Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg
74 x 100 cm
Courtesy Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris and Art Contemporain, Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg
170 x 230 cm
Courtesy Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris and Art Contemporain, Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg
93 x 132 cm
Frac Poitou-Charentes's collection
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Biography
Born in 1967.
Lives and works in Berlin.
The artist is represented by the Galerie Aline Vidal.
