Jonas Dehnen
“Twelve Flower Festoon”
May 15 - May 18, 2025
A new series of 12 small-scale oil paintings by Jonas Dehnen (DE. 1992), created on self-made aluminium and tin supports. This body of work marks a point of convergence between Jonas’ established painting practice and his more exploratory, dilettantish sculptural activities.
The series takes the form of allegories for aesthetic taste, drawing from both art historical reference points and the pervasive visual noise of contemporary culture. The use of unconventional support materials—aluminium and tin—extends Jonas’ ongoing interest in collective rituals of belief: divination, fetish objects, the aura of artistic authorship, and the conspiratorial mindset that often accompanies these themes.
By integrating diverse visual and physical inputs into a singular constellation, the work aims to create a new dynamic that is mediated through Jonas’ idiosyncratic visual language. His examination of painterly codes and pictorial tropes offers a layered reflection on how taste is shaped, consumed, and reconfigured today.
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