Thilo Jenssen’s (*1984 in Daun, Germany) works entice with their reflecting, smooth-polished surfaces in shimmering, glittering, and sometimes fluctuating colors, a structure that is reminiscent of screens. His Paintings are charged with contemporary impulses, distancing themselves from a purely historical attribution to the Finish Fetish movement that emerged in Southern California in the 1960s from an automotive cult widespread on the West Coast.
Inspired by influences from Pop Art and everyday culture, ThiloJenssenattempts to create new references and ways of reading with lacquers, metal structures and objects, and systems of signs that are taken out of their context. The artist may see his practice primarily influenced by painting. However, various supports and fastenings often detach his works from the wall and allow them to develop a spatial and performative attraction.
Thilo Jenssen’s works have entered major private collectionsin Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Italy and are included in institutional collections such as the photographic collection of the Pinakothek in Munich.
