Dani Jakob
Dani Jakob was born 1973 BirthFreiburg, Germany.
Lives and works in HomeBerlin.
Categories: Sculpture Objects
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The pictures and sculptures of Dani Jakob resemble high-piled stranded goods of islands within the nothingness. These items can be found after floods in rivers or on beaches where uprooted trees with river stones, empty plastic bottles, old shoes and twiners, as well as plastic bags which have been intertwined in roots lay around welded together by destiny…
Jakob belongs to a generation of young German artists whose oeuvre has a distinctly lyrical flavor to it and is frequently subsumed under the heading of neo-romanticism.
Dani Jakob’s artistic approach is pictorial, yet exceeds the traditional conception of the medium. Concretely, she extends two-dimensional silk paintings and collages into three-dimensional installations and sculptures. For this purpose contrasting symbol systems are used as ingredients for an alchemistic medley which generates new meanings…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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