“[Sergej Jensen] description of his medium as 'painting without paint' suggests that we should forsake an emphasis on the surfaces on and with which he works—burlap, linen, jute, wool, silk, denim—and attend instead to what he does to these textiles... Minimally worked, his paintings affirm a radical thrift of gesture, frequently incorporating reaches of empty space and faint, aleatory markings such as stains or smudges of soot.”
Lisa Pasquariello, Pattern Recognition: The Art of Sergej Jensen, Artforum, online, 2006