London and Valencia based artist J. Kesín was born in Hamburg, Germany where he lived until 1999. During the 1990’s he also spent extended periods of time in Russia and Uzbekistan, following the break-up of the Soviet Union, which added to his experiences and inspirations.
His artistic interests and influences include the ideas of simultaneity, cubism, constructivism, as well as symbolism and Howard Hodgkin’s associative abstraction.
Working mainly with oil and acrylics, he creates paintings of his perception of different subjects. These range from the autobiographical to literature, general concepts, politics and current affairs.
The subjects of his paintings are often deconstructed into ‘components’, which may relate to various aspects such as different points in time, protagonists, emotions or the physical world, and are then represented on the canvas by layers, interplaying and creating a game of shapes, lines, opacity and transparency. Analysis, emotion and spontaneity are combined in a process of constant conversation with the evolving painting.
Education:
2019- 2021 Three year painting studies under Sibylle Werkmeister (founder and former director and lecturer at the ‘Freie Kunstakademie Überlingen’), Com. of Valencia, Spain
1992-1998 MA Applied Cultural Studies, University of Lueneburg, Germany
Exhibitions:
Solo Exhibitions:
2021 Layered Perceptions, De Souza Gallery, Cervera del Maestre, Spain
Group Exhibitions:
2024 Juxtaposing the Random, Bloom Gallery, Valencia, Spain
2023 Reimagined Realities (fortcoming, October 2023), Gallery Arteria, Barcelona, Spain
2023 Surface Tension, Bloom Gallery, Valencia
2023 The 5th Element, Oficina Municipal de Ulldecona, Tarragona, Catalunya, Spain
2023 Where Beauty Lies, Casa del Dragon, Cervera del Maestre, Spain
2023 Habla – Speak, De Souza Gallery, Cervera del Maestre, Spain
2023 Revelations, Bloom Gallery, Valencia, Spain
2022 Relics of Future’s Past, La Joya Space, Valencia, Spain
2022 Annual Contemporary Art Exhibition, Cervera del Maestre
2022 EXOIT – When Healing Begins, De Souza Gallery, Cervera del Maestre, Spain
2022 Urban and Contemporary Art Exhibition, La Joya Space, Valencia, Spain
2021 A Cultural Trip (Viaje Cultural), Gallery Sporting Club Russafa, Valencia, Spain
2021 The Beauty of Forgiveness, Gallery Casa del Dragon, Cervera del Maestre, Spain
2021 Annual Contemporary Art Exhibition Cervera del Maestre, Ermita de San Sebastian, Cervera del Maestre, Spain