Jan-Ole Schiemann

Kasmin presents Cologne-based painter Jan-Ole Schiemann’s (b. 1983) third solo presentation at the gallery, If There Was A Letter For It. On view will be new canvas paintings that index a careful process of gestural mark making, featuring Schiemann’s first series of paintings to incorporate oil paint. With oil, Schiemann intensifies the expression of velocity within his work, capturing a range of motion in thick gestural marks that glide across the canvas in assertive colorways. Returning to the grid as a guiding compositional strategy, Schiemann imparts a distinct geometric character in these paintings, expanding his singular visual vocabulary.

Schiemann’s energetic constructions are characterized by boldly abstract figures, vivid cumulous color clouds, and an assertive, instinctive use of shape and line. The artist’s most recent compositions meld fragments and echoes from his former visual vocabulary with new devices that together push the language of gestural abstraction into new territories.

Kasmin is pleased to present A Different Pose, the gallery’s first solo exhibition of new paintings by Cologne-based artist Jan-Ole Schiemann. Schiemann’s paintings are grounded in both gestural abstraction and the history of 20th-century animation, aspects that combine to imbue his work with a rare sense of kinetic energy. Half-formed, simultaneously disappearing and reappearing shapes suggest that somewhere amidst the lines, there are figures tumbling, colliding, or fighting obscured by clouds of smoke. As a result of Schiemann’s meticulous, layered application of charcoal, oilstick, ink and acrylic, the works have the illusion of both a sculptural and a digital depth. The artist’s first solo exhibition at Kasmin will be comprised of new medium-scale and monumental paintings, as well as the debut of a new series of works on paper.