"Louver" 2024

Dimensions: 28 x 41 x 2

Medium: Archival Ink on Paper

Artist: Jonas Stirner

Price: $3500

Louver (2024) is Jonas Stirner at his most intricate and expansive—a mosaic of Paris not as a place, but as a layered memory. Composed like a fractured dream, the piece stitches together multiple vantages: glimpses of sculpture through museum glass, architectural silhouettes, the steel lattice of the Eiffel Tower, and pedestrians dissolving into brushwork. Each fragment exists in its rhythm, yet all are bound by a shared pulse.

What sets Louver apart is its refusal to offer a single point of view. Stirner doesn’t present Paris—he reconstructs it from the inside out, layering time, texture, and shadow until the city becomes something more poetic than physical. The work feels as though it was unearthed rather than made—its distressed surfaces and softened edges evoking a past that refuses to stay in the past.

There’s something cinematic here—like frames spliced from different reels, each offering a new tone, a new lens. And yet, the composition holds. It doesn’t just hang—it commands, with a quiet complexity that rewards repeated viewing. Louver isn’t just for those who love Paris—it’s for those who understand that cities are not seen all at once, but lived in layers. This is a collector’s piece for someone drawn to nuance, to mood, to meaning buried beneath the obvious.