The Staatsgalerie Moderne Kunst presents Jerry Zeniuk. Elementary Painting, on view 16.05.2012 – 01.05.2013.
Jerry Zeniuk Untitled 2008, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in., Photo: Courtesy Gallery Rupert Walser, Munich © Jerry Zeniuk
a branch of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, is organising a comprehensive exhibition of works by the German-American artist Jerry Zeniuk to be shown from May 2012 onwards. The exhibition, drawn up in close cooperation with the artist himself, examines all of Zeniuk’s artistic phases from the 1970s to the present day. From the very beginning, it has been Zeniuk’s aim to avoid making statements in his work and to free himself in his painting from all illustrative, narrative and psychologically related moments. Instead, he concentrates primarily on features inherent to painting: the properties of colours and the purely visual sensation they cause. He converts colours and shapes into dynamic pictorial structures which open up subtle perceptual spaces in the mind of the viewer. In the course of Zeniuk’s career that stretches over more than forty years, this interplay between colour, shape and the picture’s surface has increasingly become a central theme in his painting. Parallel to »Jerry Zeniuk. Elementary Painting«, H2 – the Augsburg centre for contemporary art right next door – is staging the exhibition »Bernd Zimmer«, showing generally more recent works by the artist. – www.pinakothek.de