Events/Openings

Niels Borch Jensen Gallery & Editions will present Etchings and Monotypes in collaboration with John Zurier from November 24th at their gallery in Berlin.

In John Zurier’s works, seemingly monochromatic surfaces evolve into visual poetry, which goes beyond precision. His language is minimal and at the same time very distinct: linear elements build up space through an interaction of presence and absence.
In collaboration with Niels Borch Jensen Editions, Zurier continued with the technique of line etching begun in summer 2016. Furthermore he transferred his practice as a painter from the canvas to the printing plate. This process, of drawing in print, enables a way of expression which, through its subtlety, goes far beyond the total of the partial elements of the image and makes the very process of printmaking visible: the marks in the plate, executed by brush or needle, become evident; the force with which the paper is pressed into the indentations is almost palpable. The three-dimensionality of ink sitting on paper, the rich texture of the surfaces, the physical material at hand becomes the topic of a meditation on color and surface.

JOHN ZURIER, born 1956 in Santa Monica, lives and works in Berkeley, California. His work is exhibited internationally, most recently at The Club (Tokyo, 2018), Peter Blum Gallery (New York, 2018 & 2017), Niels Borch Jensen (Berlin, 2016), GalerieNordenhake (Berlin, 2016), and the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley (2014). He participated inthe 30th São Paulo Biennial (São Paulo, 2012), the 7th Gwangju Biennial (South Korea, 2008), and the Whitney Biennial (New York, 2002). He is represented in numerous international public collections, most notably the Berkeley Art Museum,the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Moderna Museet, Stockholm. John Zurier has been collaborating withBORCH Editions since 2016.