“Bringing the essential into being(s)” Exhibition by Jens Mohr
Opening party: June 14 at 06pm
Schedule:Monday to saturday, from 10am until 01pm and from 02pm until 03pm
Patente until: July 27, 2024
Location: LAC – Laboratório de Actividades Criativas
Price: Free Entry
Synopsis
“If someone asks me what international artist Jens Mohr does with his art, I can only think of one answer: he makes “beings”. First of all, this has a tangible meaning: because what is created here is a series of literally peculiar pictorial beings, sometimes elusive, but always looking strangely familiar. The crux of Jens Mohr’s work on beings, however, is deeper; it refers to the profound philosophical dimension of this “essence art”: for the essence of a thing is the cardinal, the true, which in itself cannot be seen immediately, but can only express itself on the embodied surface of things. The essence is at the same time that which, as if starting from the depth of an invisible center, combines all the parts visible on the surface into a meaningful totality.”
Biography
Jens Mohr was born in 1971 in Siegburg, Germany His artistic career began in 1990 and he has been active ever since. He started exhibiting his work mainly in Germany in 1993, and since 1997 his pieces have also been shown abroad. Jens Mohr creates strange and humorous artistic pieces from everyday found objects. Each of them arises spontaneously and intuitively. For the most part, Jens uses the objects in the original condition in which he found them. His independent creatures are expressive characters. He has been living and working in Bonn, Germany, since 1997.
