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Sergej Jensen
10 September 2015 -
31 October 2015

opening reception on Thursday,
10 September, 6-9 pm

Sergej Jensen

 

11 September - 31 October 2015
opening reception on Thursday, 10 September, 6-9 pm
opening hours Tue-Sat 10 am-6 pm

 

Galerie Buchholz is pleased to present its first solo exhibition with Sergej Jensen. Beginning in the early-2000s Jensen became well known for so-called “painting without paint,” creating abstractions using found textiles and their ancillary marks. Jensen’s spare, expansive works were said to avoid all signs of willful expression, forgoing painterly gesture for apparently received forms. This year Jensen debuted a new body of work conspicuous for seeming to break with his signature style. In his exhibition at Galerie Buchholz figures suggesting Renaissance, Romantic or proto-Modernist sources are rendered with a technique resembling tempera or fresco painting, using translucent pigment applied thinly in many layers. On inspection the solemn scenes depicted hint at having been patched together from diverse materials - a Northern Renaissance head, in one example, joined to an 18th-century British torso. As with Jensen’s sewn abstractions this new body of work invokes a tradition of high painting, adopting its conventions but setting apart or emptying out its symbolic or expressive ambitions.

 

Sergej Jensen (born 1973, Maglegaard, Denmark) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (2013); MoMA P.S.1, New York (2011); Portikus, Frankfurt (2010); Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2010); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2009); Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2008); Malmö Konsthall, Malmo (2008); and Kunsthalle Bergen, Bergen (2008). His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Modern, London; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

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Sergej Jensen

installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2015

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Sergej Jensen

installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2015

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Sergej Jensen

installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2015

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
acrylic on linen
162.5 x 173 cm

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Sergej Jensen

installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2015

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
acrylic on sewn cotton canvas
40.5 x 51 cm

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
acrylic on sewn linen
57 x 44.5 cm

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
acrylic on sewn linen
53.5 x 40.6 cm

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Sergej Jensen

installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2015

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Sergej Jensen

installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2015

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
acrylic on linen
274.5 x 136.5 cm

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
acrylic on linen
76 x 51 cm

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Sergej Jensen

installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2015

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Sergej Jensen

installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2015

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Sergej Jensen

installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2015

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
acrylic on linen
100 x 85 cm

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
acrylic on sewn linen
100.5 x 85 cm

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Sergej Jensen

installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2015

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
acrylic on linen
240 x 200 cm

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
acrylic on linen
240 x 200 cm

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Sergej Jensen

installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2015

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
acrylic on sewn linen
264 x 413 cm

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
acrylic on sewn linen
264 x 413 cm

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Sergej Jensen

installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2015

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Sergej Jensen

installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2015

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
acrylic on sewn linen
216 x 115 x 2 cm

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Sergej Jensen

installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2015

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Sergej Jensen

installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2015

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
acrylic and white chalk
on sewn linen
173 x 162.5 cm

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
acrylic and white chalk
on sewn linen
173 x 162.5 cm

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Sergej Jensen

installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2015

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Sergej Jensen

installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2015

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
charcoal on primed paper
22 x 19 cm

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
brown chalk on
primed paper
26.5 x 39.5 cm

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
charcoal on primed paper
16 x 11.5 cm

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
charcoal and red chalk on primed paper
19 x 16 cm

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
charcoal on primed paper
16.5 x 22 cm

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
charcoal and red chalk
on primed paper
21.5 x 14.5 cm

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
charcoal on primed paper
18 x 23.5 cm

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
charcoal on primed paper
18 x 23.5 cm

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
charcoal and watercolor
on primed paper
25 x 18 cm

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
acrylic on linen
150 x 190.5 cm

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
acrylic on linen
150 x 190.5 cm

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Sergej Jensen

Untitled, 2015
acrylic on sewn linen
51 x 76 cm

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