RAW VISION | PREVIEW

JENS EINHORN RAW VISION Opening Reception: January 12, 6–8pm Exhibition: January 10 – February 5, 2018

Olsen Gruin is pleased to present RAW VISION, an exhibition of new collage-paintings by German artist Jens Einhorn, on view from January 10 to February 5, 2018, at 30 Orchard Street.

The gallery will host an opening reception on January 12, from 6 to 8pm.

Einhorn’s body of work develops his interest in channeling the assertive energy of the urban periphery.

These new works incorporate tarpaper cut out silhouettes layered starkly above a vibrant collage of fabric, acrylic, and spray paint. The gritty, plant-like forms allude to East Germany, whose barren city landscape Einhorn explored as a teenager.

The concrete jungle represents Einhorn’s wilderness, where leaves cover tarpaper rooves and blend with the colors of graffiti and rust. Describing his interests, Einhorn references the abandoned shelters and overgrown junkyards that exist between the urban and natural worlds. Like Einhorn’s canvases, these plots are spaces of collage and metamorphosis. Just as our personal memories give meaning to others’ discarded objects, Einhorn’s collages emanate suggestion and opportunity within this context.

Einhorn’s working method requires instinct, determination, and condition. Difficult to handle and cut, tarpaper resists intention; Einhorn writes that it “often demands its own way.” In some works, rhythmic territories of color give a spontaneous impression. In others, built-up layers of tarpaper attest to decisions accumulated, revisited, and rethought. This artistic practice parallels life in the period leading to “Deutsche Einheit”, where feelings of impulse and jeopardy are inherent in every decision.

Tensions between what is manmade and what is natural give force to Jens Einhorn’s vision of East Germany and present Berlin. Einhorn’s paintings harmonize design and intuition, motion and rest, freedom and control.

Jens Einhorn (b. 1980) graduated from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf as a Master Student with Professor Tal R, and lives and works in Berlin. Solo exhibitions include *TRACING REMAINS*, *VITA PARCOURS*, and We Are All We Have, all at DUVE Berlin, Germany; Electric Eyes, Luce Gallery, Turin; and Too Much Future, Bruch & Dallas, Köln. Group shows include Ornis A. Gallery, Amsterdam; G2 Kunsthalle Leipzig, Germany; Annarumma Gallery, Naples; the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples; and C. Rockefeller Center for the Contemporary Arts, Dresden, among others. Jens is represented by DUVE Gallery, Berlin.

For further information please contact the gallery at info@olsengruin.com or at +1.646.525.6213. All images are subject to copyright. Gallery approval must be granted prior to reproduction.

Jens Einhorn: Raw Vision, 2018

Jens Einhorn CONCRETE SUNSET, 2017 Tarpaper, fabric, acrylic, acrylic spray paint, collage on canvas 78 3/4 x 59 " (200 x 150 cm) 52132 $8,500

Jens Einhorn SMOKE SIGNAL, 2017 Tarpaper, fabric, acrylic, acrylic spray paint, collage on canvas 78 3/4 x 59 " (200 x 150 cm) 52133 $8,500

Jens Einhorn FÜR DIE VÖGEL (FOR THE BIRDS), 2017 Tarpaper, fabric, acrylic, acrylic spray paint, collage on canvas 78 3/4 x 59 " (200 x 150 cm) 52134 $8,500

Jens Einhorn PORZELLAN UND VOLKAN (PORCELAIN AND VOLCANO), 2017 Tarpaper, fabric, acrylic, acrylic spray paint, collage on canvas 78 3/4 x 59 " (200 x 150 cm) 52135 $8,500

Jens Einhorn METALTAIL, 2017 Tarpaper, acrylic, ink, collage on canvas 47 1/4 x 35 3/8 " (120 x 90 cm) 52136 $6,000

Jens Einhorn NIGHT ON EARTH, 2017 Tarpaper, mesh, fabric, ropes, acrylic, ink, acrylic spray paint, collage on canvas 78 3/4 x 59 " (200 x 150 cm) 52137 $8,500

Jens Einhorn SIDEWALKS AND GRAVITY, 2017 Tarpaper, mesh, fabric, ropes, acrylic, ink, oil, lacquer, collage on canvas 78 3/4 x 59 " (200 x 150 cm) 52138 $8,500

Jens Einhorn CHEETAH, 2017 Tarpaper collage on canvas 78 3/4 x 59 " (200 x 150 cm) 52139 $8,500

Jens Einhorn CHLORINE AND MEMORY, 2017 Tarpaper, mesh, fabric, ropes, acrylic, ink, oil, spray paint, collage on canvas 78 3/4 x 59 " (200 x 150 cm) 52140 $8,500

JENS EINHORN CV

EDUCATION: 2014 2012

2008

Master Student of Prof. Tal R. Düsseldorf Art Academy, with Prof. Tal R Düsseldorf Art Academy, with Prof. Andreas Schulze Leipzig Art Academy, with Prof. Astrid Klein Photography, Leipzig Art Academy

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS: 2017 2016 2015 2015 2015 2014

*TRACING REMAINS*, DUVE Berlin, Berlin, DE *VITA PARCOURS*, with Christopher Füllemann, DUVE Berlin, Berlin, DE We Are All We Have, DUVE Berlin, Berlin, DE Art Cologne, with DUVE Berlin, Cologne, DE Electric Eyes, Luce Gallery, Turin, IT Too Much Future, Bruch & Dallas, Köln, DE

GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2017 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2015 2015 2015 2015 2015 2015 2015 2014 2013 2013 2012 2012

Young New Painters, Ornis A. Gallery Amsterdam, NE Through A Glass, Clearly, G2 Kunsthalle Leipzig, DE We’ve Been Hiding Too Long, David Achenbach Projects, Wuppertal, DE No Superior Side, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf, DE Come As You Are, Annarumma Gallery, Naples, IT ob-iectum sub-iectum, Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig, DE Hoefijzerschilderij, Real Positive, Köln, DE Sauersazobomb, Richardstrasse 20, Berlin, DE Havenstrasse, Westhafen, Berlin, DE Sammlung Simonow, Adler, Düsseldorf, DE Sammlung Simonow, Kunsthalle Bozen, Bolzano, IT Come As You Are, Annarumma Gallery, Naples, IT Hoefijzerschilderij, Real Positive, Köln, DE Comedy Club, Berlin, DE PIN. Freunde Der Pinakothek Der Moderne e.V, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, DE Benefizauktion, Bruch&Dallas, Cologne, DE If it can't burn us, can it still warm our hearts? kuratiert von R.Walker & C.Erdmann, Mindscape Universe, Berlin, DE Macrocosmi, Berlin - Bologna, Alters Postfuhramt West, Berlin, DE NADA New York, with DUVE Berlin, NY Zona Maco, with DUVE Berlin, Mexico City, MX You're Just Too Good to be True, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, DE The Go Between, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, IT You are My Mirror Part II, Potemka Contemporary Art, Leipzig, DE Another Brick In The Wall, C. Rockefeller Center for the Contemporary Arts, Dresden, DE Krystalline (Lulu), A100, Düsseldorf, DE Die Weisse Massai, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig, DE

2012 2012 2011 2011 2011 2011 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2009 2009

Mini, Weißcube Galerie, Leipzig, DE Natur 3D, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Leipzig, DE Wir Belohnen Sie, Kunstraum Ortloff, Leipzig, DE Hochdruck an der HGB, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Leipzig, DE The Gaem Ist Krieg, Kunstraum Ortloff, Leipzig, DE We Are the World, Galerie Queen Anne, Leipzig, DE Hotel Genial - Junge Kunst aus Leipzig, Galerie Nord, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, DE Lucie Freynhagen / Jens Einhorn: Positionen zum 5. Lindenow, Kunstraum Benjamin Richard, Tapetenwerk Leipzig, Leipzig, DE Total Selloff, C. Rockefeller Center for the Contemporary Arts, Dresden, DE Porschismus Kunstpreis 2010, Essential Existence Gallery, Leipzig, DE Hotel Genial: Junge Kunst Aus Leipzig, Galerie Nord, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, DE Made In China, Positionen Der Klasse Prof. A. Klein, HGB Leipzig, Leipzig, DE Dominik Bucher vs. Jens Einhorn, Bautzner69, Dresden, DE

PUBLICATIONS: 2016 2014 2013 2012

Gründung der nomadischen Ausstellungsreihe „Comedy Club“ in Berlin, DE The Go Between, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, IT Another Brick In The Wall: C. Rockefeller Center for the Contemporary Arts, Dresden, DE MANET MONET MONEY: Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig, DE

BIBLIOGRAPHY: 2013 2012

Another Brick In The Wall: R. Brambora, J. Einhorn, M. Kirmse, G. Weissbach, C. Rockefeller Center for the Contemporary Arts, Dresden, DE (exhibition catalogue) MANET MONET MONEY: Brambora, Einhorn, Kirmse, Weißbach, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig, DE (exhibition catalogue)