The works are rooted in Jens Mennicke’s ongoing series Resonances. Within this body of work, he expands the principles of Color Field painting into the digital realm, condensing color, light, and space into an almost immaterial experience. From synthetic light, material simulation, and chromatic atmospheres emerge visual structures that, in conjunction with the smooth, reflective surface of the work-integrated presentation, generate a spatial and contemplative presence — a visual language that may be understood as a form of digital spiritualism for the digital age.

While the Resonances series investigates the phenomenon of pure chromatic vibration, the motifs presented here extend this concept into the realm of visual matter — a space where abstraction and object reference begin to converge.

In the jewelry icons, what remains immaterial in Resonances — light, color, and space — encounters the physical language of design. Materials such as gold, pearl, and diamond appear, only to dissolve again into motion, radiance, and blur. Through digital rendering, the objects transform into energetic fields in which the boundaries between matter and atmosphere become fluid.

One might say that Resonances articulates the origin — a pure, formless field of vibration. The works created for Tiffany can be seen as incarnations of this vibration within a cultural and material context.

A conceptual axis thus emerges: from pure chromatic resonance toward the simulation of desire — an aesthetic in which luxury is no longer defined primarily by possession but by appearance. Mennicke’s work thereby revolves around a central motif of contemporary art: the transformation of materiality into perception, of object into atmosphere, of being into image.

The works were commissioned for the new Northern Europe Head Office of Tiffany & Co. and were presented under the title The Many Facets of Love at two exclusive events at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus and the Tiffany Flagship Store on Königsallee. They form a cultural bridge between Tiffany’s tradition of craftsmanship and contemporary artistic practice.

Credits: Exhibition photos @hopestudio