About:
J. Kesin, a contemporary artist from Germany, creates paintings that reflect a distinctive way of seeing the world. His work unfolds through layered compositions—where subject, form, and colour evolve into a rich visual language.
Kesin’s paintings are rooted in an exploration of structure, memory, and visual experience through abstraction. Each composition develops gradually, combining transparency, texture, and gesture to form complex emotional and conceptual fields. He often breaks down subjects—whether internal, social, or sensory—into overlapping systems, allowing ambiguity and intuition to guide the narrative.
Influenced by early abstraction and modernist strategies of deconstruction, his work has been recognised for its ability to blend abstraction with narrative, offering space for quiet reflection and sustained looking.
Kesin has exhibited in galleries and public spaces in Spain, and his works are held in private and institutional collections across Europe.
Work:
Available Individual Works:
Series ‘Mediterranean Visions’:
This series was created in 2024 for the exhibition ‘What Remains’ in Valencia. It was inspired by the idea of the Mediterranean region as a place of constant change, movement and transformation.
The works follow the constraints given by the concept of the exhibition: All are on A3 300g Arches paper, and there were only five acrylic colours from ‘Liquitex’ used, plus black and white.
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Series ‘Mindscapes’:
Utilising a layered technique and incorporating patterns reminiscent of camouflage designs, the paintings in the ‘Mindscapes’ series are concerned with themes related to identity, social interaction, and psychological concepts.
Series ‘City Limits’ & ‘Konstrukt’:
‘City Limits’ revolves around cities in moments of crisis. Through alienation of historical images and the use of additional layers and elements, the works aim to reach beyond the moments captured in the original photos, to issues of the present day. ‘Konstrukt’ is a purely abstract extension, focussing on cities and city life.
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Series ‘Future Relics’:
‘Future Relics’ showcase artefacts of our culture’s relationship with animals; like cages, egg cartons, and weapons, with shapes and symbols overlaid. These images were conceived from the perspective of a hypothetical future society that has long consigned the use of animal products to its history books, prompting speculation about their reflection on our present-day practices of animal production and utilisation.
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Series ‘Stripes’ and ‘Horizons’:
The series ‘Stripes’ comprises abstract representations of the artist’s perception of different subjects. ‘Panther’, a visualisation of Rilke’s poem was the starting point of the series
Subsequent works in this series have been concerned with places and times that had a significant meaning for the artist. Here the different layers may represent facets like landscape, architecture, people, history, events….
The series ‘Horizons’ focuses more on current affairs and general concepts. The constraints of the strong vertical orientation give way to less uniform compositions, and more emphasis is placed on the application of thin, transparent layers.
Available Works ‘Stripes’:
Available Works ‘Horizons’:
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