Jan Pleitner Could somebody please stop the time for a second?
on view until 5 October
Althuis Hofland Fine Arts
“....If I tell you that Pleitner is an alumnus of the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie, where he studied under Jorg Immendorf and Tal R, you will be prepared for his crowded, colourful canvases. The works are entirely abstract and all painted in one continuous session with the artist’s bare hands.” Caroline Douglas for Contemporary art Society, 2014 on the exhibition “Doowylloh”, Lee Lozano/ Jan Pleitner at Ancient & Modern, London 2014
Untitled, 2019 60 x 80 cm oil on canvas 5.600 euro (ex 9% VAT & shipping) click here for more information
“....there is a jittery, nervous energy to Pleitner’s canvases. They set our eyes going and never let them rest. Pleitner has in mind our souped-up world of instantaneous communications. Moving beyond the technology of the web and its various platforms, he tries to envisage the way our brains process information, and information’s speed-oflight negotiation of the spaces between people and their devices.” “Water for the Tribe – Jan Pleitner”, Irish Times, Aidan Dunne, 16-02-2016, Review exhibition at Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Untitled, 2019 (+ detail) 170 x 120 oil on canvas 11.600 (ex 9% VAT & shipping) click here for more information
“...At the artist’s suggestion, his paintings are paired here with three important works on paper by 1960s conceptual artist Lee Lozano. Intriguingly, and without explanation, Pleitner apparently hired a medium to contact Lozano in the afterlife – a small text, a transcript of the result, is available at the gallery. There is an immediate formal resonance between the two artists work, after which it is trickier to discern more connections. But these three works are here on loan from Hauser and Wirth and it can only be a pleasure to take the rare opportunity to view them, and contemplate the sympathies that might exist between the troubled, late feminist and this young painter, clearly going places. Sometimes its better, more rewarding, when you don’t fully understand why something is good...” Caroline Douglas for Contemporary art Society, 2014
“Doowylloh”, Lee Lozano/ Jan Pleitner at Ancient & Modern, London 2014
“....If I tell you that Pleitner is an alumnus of the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie, where he studied under Jorg Immendorf and Tal R, you will be prepared for his crowded, colourful canvases. The works are entirely abstract and all painted in one continuous session with the artist’s bare hands.” Caroline Douglas for Contemporary art Society, 2014 on the exhibition “Doowylloh”, Lee Lozano/ Jan Pleitner at Ancient & Modern, London 2014
Installation view Helios, Kerlin Gallery Dublin 2018
Jan Pleitner Could somebody please stop the time for a second? Opening 7 September, 2019 exhibition until 5 October, 2019 Jan Pleitner uses the term ‘sci-fi expressionism’ to describe his work. The artist creates striking and expressive abstract painting driven by subconscious thought. Often painted in short bursts of time, or even marathon single sittings, the works are full of movement and energy, with jolting lines pulling the eye up and down the canvas. Pleitner’s highly physical approach to painting sees him scrape through layers of paint as readily as he builds them up, resulting in a highly tactile canvas. His deep colour palette is lively and mercurial, with elemental patches, streaks and lines bleeding into one another and jostling for space aggressively, but not inharmoniously. Imbued with symbolic properties, they point towards a synesthesiac sensibility, and derive from a highly spiritual state of mind. Born in Oldenburg, Pleitner is currently based in Düsseldorf, having graduated with an MA from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2010. Exhibitions include Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (2018), EY I?, Philipp Haverkampf Galerie, Berlin; Träum Weiter!, Kunstverein Heppenheim, Germany (both 2017); Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (2016); MIER Gallery, Los Angeles (2016); Nanzuka Underground, Tokyo (2015); Natalia Hug, Cologne (2014, 2016); Ancient & Modern, London (2014); Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin; Kunstfoyer am Langenweg, Germany; Förderpreis der Öffentlichen Versicherungen Oldenburg, Germany (2013); Projekt Skagen 12, Denmark (2012); Avlskarl Fine Art Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (2011). In 2013, he was awarded a grant by the Kulturstiftung der Öffentlichen Versicherungen Oldenburg. Hannah Eckstein, curator of Sammlung Grasslin, will write a text about Pleitner’s art practice for his monography to be published by the end of 2019.
Untitled, 2019 170 x 120 cm oil on canvas 11.600 (ex 9% VAT & shipping) click here for more information
Untitled, 2019 60 x 80 cm, oil on canvas
Untitled, 2019 170 x 120 cm, oil on canvas
Untitled, 2019 80 x 60 cm, oil on canvas
Untitled, 2019 170 x 120 cm, oil on canvas
Untitled, 2019 120 x 170 cm, oil on canvas
Untitled, 2019 120 x 170 cm, oil on canvas
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on view until 5 October
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