like sands through the hour glass, so are the days of my life...i sometimes rejoice in my release and many times heartingly miss anton kern (gallery)...yesterday was poignantly one of those times. would they say the same? it is a hard question to ask, if one is uncertain of the answer. i may return and delete this, or i may be happy enough to allow it to live in cyber space, for certain, only time will tell.




taking directly from the press release (prof. christoph, i presume):
Moving away from the material purity of his former work (and the neo-formalism debate about contemporary art practices in relation to those of earlier avant-garde movements), he now emphasizes the distressed character of the materials and its fragility in a kind of romanticism of material concreteness. He thereby moves closer to the historic works of Alberto Burri and away from Blinky Palermo’s clarity. The coarseness of the materials, the cracks and holes, the informal, stitched-together look of the color fields, and the properties of the muted harmonious tones create a radical frailty and tattered grace that become highly evocative and speak directly to issues of aesthetic withdrawal and the state of material.


Sergej Jensen, Untitled, 2008