Sergej Jensen - Contemporary Art Evening Sale New York Thursday, March 4, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Provenance


    Galerie Neu, Berlin

  • Catalogue Essay


    Jensen enlists the visual idioms of Arte Povera to formulate his investigation of the semantic and ontological differences between a “picture” and a “painting”—a natural choice, perhaps, given the assertion by Germano Celant, who labeled the movement, that Arte Povera’s aim was to achieve the “pre-iconic,” that is, to de-differentiate the values conditioning reception and allow for a state of unlearned viewership. Stretching, warping, and sewing together the material constituents of his canvas, Jensen lays bare the temporal and material contingencies that guide reception. While his emphasis on the physical binding of fabric recalls Jannis Kounellis’ anti-painterly handling of burlap, Jensen’s canvases present an elegant aesthetic ambivalence. And while he makes it a point to use industrial bleach and chlorine, Jensen never leaves painting entirely; There is always more than mere gesture. Working largely in nearmonochrome bits of fabric appliqué, Jensen paradoxically weds his interest in process to the idom of self-reflective modernist painting in order to interrogate the work’s objecthood.
    Alex Gartenfeld, “Sergej Jensen New York,” Art Papers, September/October 2008

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Untitled

2007
Burlap.
70 7/8 x 51 1/8 in. (180 x 130 cm).

Estimate
$35,000 - 45,000 

Sold for $35,000

Contemporary Art Evening Sale

4 Mar 2010
New York