Marcus Jahmal - New Religion Monograph with “Caballo Blanco” Pigment Print (Edition of 50)
Marcus Jahmal
New Religion (Special Edition)
2021
Texts by Evan Mouffit and Chris Martin
Book: 27.5 x 21.5 cm - 11 x 8 1/2 in
Print: 25 x 20 cm - 10 x 8 in
160 pages
Hardcover, archival pigment print
English/French
Edition of 50
Almine Rech Editions
New Condition/Shrink-wrapped
Almine Rech Editions is thrilled to present the special edition 'New Religion' by Marcus Jahmal. Each special edition book comes along with the print 'Caballo blanco', limited to 50 signed and numbered copies.
Published in conjunction with the exhibitions by Marcus Jahmal held between 2019 and 2021 at Almine Rech.
For Marcus Jahmal, painting begins with black. Ivory Black, Lamp Black, Intense Carbon Black. These layered shades of oil give his works an intense chromatic texture reminiscent of Ad Reinhart. Coaxing an image from a black-primed canvas is a deeply spiritual, apophatic process, a kind of accumulation through negation, a way of communing with the void. True to form, Jahmal calls painting his “religion.” A self-proclaimed night-owl, he often works in the evening light of his Bushwick studio, drawing his imagery from his walks through the neighborhood after sundown, and asks questions of his paintings that only they can answer. This makes for a monastic but secular practice. “I paint my way out of the darkness,” he says.
Marcus Jahmal
New Religion (Special Edition)
2021
Texts by Evan Mouffit and Chris Martin
Book: 27.5 x 21.5 cm - 11 x 8 1/2 in
Print: 25 x 20 cm - 10 x 8 in
160 pages
Hardcover, archival pigment print
English/French
Edition of 50
Almine Rech Editions
New Condition/Shrink-wrapped
Almine Rech Editions is thrilled to present the special edition 'New Religion' by Marcus Jahmal. Each special edition book comes along with the print 'Caballo blanco', limited to 50 signed and numbered copies.
Published in conjunction with the exhibitions by Marcus Jahmal held between 2019 and 2021 at Almine Rech.
For Marcus Jahmal, painting begins with black. Ivory Black, Lamp Black, Intense Carbon Black. These layered shades of oil give his works an intense chromatic texture reminiscent of Ad Reinhart. Coaxing an image from a black-primed canvas is a deeply spiritual, apophatic process, a kind of accumulation through negation, a way of communing with the void. True to form, Jahmal calls painting his “religion.” A self-proclaimed night-owl, he often works in the evening light of his Bushwick studio, drawing his imagery from his walks through the neighborhood after sundown, and asks questions of his paintings that only they can answer. This makes for a monastic but secular practice. “I paint my way out of the darkness,” he says.
Marcus Jahmal
New Religion (Special Edition)
2021
Texts by Evan Mouffit and Chris Martin
Book: 27.5 x 21.5 cm - 11 x 8 1/2 in
Print: 25 x 20 cm - 10 x 8 in
160 pages
Hardcover, archival pigment print
English/French
Edition of 50
Almine Rech Editions
New Condition/Shrink-wrapped
Almine Rech Editions is thrilled to present the special edition 'New Religion' by Marcus Jahmal. Each special edition book comes along with the print 'Caballo blanco', limited to 50 signed and numbered copies.
Published in conjunction with the exhibitions by Marcus Jahmal held between 2019 and 2021 at Almine Rech.
For Marcus Jahmal, painting begins with black. Ivory Black, Lamp Black, Intense Carbon Black. These layered shades of oil give his works an intense chromatic texture reminiscent of Ad Reinhart. Coaxing an image from a black-primed canvas is a deeply spiritual, apophatic process, a kind of accumulation through negation, a way of communing with the void. True to form, Jahmal calls painting his “religion.” A self-proclaimed night-owl, he often works in the evening light of his Bushwick studio, drawing his imagery from his walks through the neighborhood after sundown, and asks questions of his paintings that only they can answer. This makes for a monastic but secular practice. “I paint my way out of the darkness,” he says.
