Photo: Andrea Stappert
Jan Pleitner creates striking and expressive abstract painting driven by subconscious thought. Often painted in short bursts of time, or even marathon single sittings, the works are full of movement and energy, with jolting lines pulling the eye up and down the canvas. Pleitner’s highly physical approach to painting sees him scrape through layers of paint as readily as he builds them up, resulting in a highly tactile canvas. His deep colour palette is lively and mercurial, with elemental patches, streaks and lines bleeding into one another and jostling for space aggressively, but not inharmoniously. Imbued with symbolic properties, they point towards a synesthesiac sensibility.
Jan Pleitner lives and works in Germany.
Jan Pleitner
Entering the morphogenetic field, 2016
oil on canvas
253 x 497 cm / 99.6 x 195.7 in
Jan Pleitner has a solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Emden, Germany, which includes an ambitious new large-scale painting in the atrium, and as well as a tent roof outside the museum.
Jan Pleitner’s new publication gives an overview of the artist’s career to date, bringing together 15 years of artworks and exhibitions.
