Jan-Ole Schiemann
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BiographyBorn in Kiel, Germany 1983
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"Schiemann’s forms take on a life of their own and shamelessly present themselves to our gaze. They mischievously touch each other by means of motival tricks like fingers and hands, noses, and other organic forms." —Philipp do Brito
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Schiemann cites color as an element worthy of concentration away from the edges of his canvas, distinct from the dense architectures of his earliest series. Populated by distantly familiar elements—hands, petals, or piano keys appear and dissolve into fields of color and raw canvas—Schiemann’s cultivated configurations streamline the signature forms of his earlier works, filled with latent references waiting to be elucidated. Hands, a notable motif among Schiemann’s paintings, reference their own manual production amid their carefully abstracted environs, caught in an impasse where codes of artistic labor and an exhaustive schema of “either-or” converge in an existential dilemma. In Schiemann’s paintings, these forms—adapted from a previously-developed vocabulary, once realized through projections of collaged materials mined from a myriad of sources including vintage comics, the early animations of Max Fleischer, and Schiemann’s own meticulous works on paper—reappear as fragments of their former selves.
Schiemann’s formal vocabulary, and especially his use of stencils, impart a distinctly singular visual language that critic Estelle Hoy has likened to “visual scatting,” or amalgamations of fervor that art historian and writer Philipp Fernandes do Brito has compared to musical sampling. An ardent electronic musician himself, and one who often listens to music while working in his studio, Schiemann’s aesthetic influences extend to avant-garde jazz figures like Sun Ra, blending seamlessly with his celebrated “remixing” of his own visual lexicon and the painterly devices of his predecessors like Arshile Gorky and Robert Motherwell. -
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WorksExhibitions
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Jan-Ole Schiemann: If there was a letter for it
October 1 – 25, 2024 514 West 28th Street, New YorkKasmin 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.View More
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Jan-Ole Schiemann: New Paintings
April 27 – June 3, 2023 509 West 27th Street, New YorkSchiemann’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.View More -
Jan-Ole Schiemann: A Different Pose
March 7 – May 4, 2019 297 Tenth Avenue, New YorkKasmin 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.View More
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Jan-Ole Schiemann reviewed in Brooklyn Rail
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Jan-Ole Schiemann reviewed in Art Observed
by C. Reinhart March 22, 2019Now on view at New York space Kasmin Gallery, artist Cologne-based artist Jan-Ole Schiemann is mounting a debut solo exhibition, bringing with him a collection...View More
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