Jari Genser (born in Salzburg in 1983) had to study psychology first to discover that he actually wanted to be an artist. He then went on to study fine art and has never regretted it (so far). In his artistic practice, he deals with objects and the traces we leave on them and they leave on us. His workspace is often at the center of his artistic interest. Exhibitions in Gmunden, Frankfurt, Paris, Tokyo, among others. Jari Genser lives and works in Vienna.
With his works, Jari Genser touches on a metaphysical wound. The term “copy of a copy of a copy” usually implies a lack of quality, which may manifest itself in a less intense experience. Plato’s criticism of artists comes to mind, as he famously wanted to banish them from his ideal republic because they produce imitations of imitations. […] As the intensity of Jari Genser’s works constantly increases, Plato’s problems recede into the distance, because with each painting, more time and space come into the picture. This remains noticeable even when older images gradually lose their sharpness and eventually disappear into the depths of the pictorial space. In this way, Jari Genser’s paintings gently dissolve the old concern with reality and prepare us for a life in which the image of the image is no less significant than reality. This makes them deeply contemporary.
(Text: Klaus Speidel)
