Nicolas Jasmin, “O. T. (exhaust LC#4)”, 2018 (Detail) Courtesy the artist and Croy Nielsen, Vienna
‘Nicolas Jasmin and other works’ at Belvedere The Belvedere Museum in Vienna presents the exhibition ‘Nicolas Jasmin and other works’. From 18 January to 22 April 2019.]]>
Source: Belvedere Vienna
Nicolas Jasmin’s artistic approach can be understood as pictorial archaeology. Jasmin has developed a method that combines painting with laser technology. A laser beam works its way through layers of paint that have been applied to hessian and exposes them to the primer, thereby revealing traces of the formation process. Jasmin also practises pictorial archaeology in terms of his subjects: he finds them in art history, in pop and everyday culture – in short: in our collective pictorial memory – and recontextualises them. Wide-ranging series of works thus arise in which Jasmin repeatedly explores simple gestures and forms. In the process, he is guided by both prescribed rules and happenstance, always questing after the unconscious and enigmatic aspects of his pictures.
In September 1989, Nicolas Jasmin – at the time a st udent of Arnulf Rainer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna – formulates his so-called Painting Dogma . This conceptual guideline consists of four points that define the fundamental parameters of his work: ‘#1 Never paint a surface all over. #2 Put a vanishing point with the help of a coin. #3 Use burlap as basis. #4 Break this dogma within 25 years.’ The materiality of the foundation for his paintings, the ac tive relationship between this painting foundation and painted monochrome surface, as well as the use of small formats, reveal themselves to be constants in the artist’s early work.
Nicolas Jasmin was born in 1967 in Toulouse, France. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. After a long working study with Walter Obholzer and detours in the film / video and music sector, he returned to painting in 2011. Jasmin lives and works in Vienna.
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