Luis Jacob
Luis Jacob (* 1971 in Lima , Peru ) is a Canadian artist .
life and work
Jacob studied philosophy at the University of Toronto and graduated with a BA in 1996 .
In 2007, he took with the two papers A Dance for Those of Us Whose Hearts Have Turned to Ice, Based on the Choreography of Françoise Sullivan and the Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth and Album III at the documenta 12 in part.
Jacob lives and works in Toronto .
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 2005: Habitat . Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
Participation in group exhibitions (selection)
- 2009: All That Is Solid Melts Into Air , Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst (MuHKA), Antwerp.
- 2007: documenta 12 , Kassel.
- 2004: Explosion LTTR: Practice More Failure , together with Leidy Churchman. Art in General, New York .
- 2003: Tomorrow's News . Galleria Hippolyte, Helsinki .
- 2002: Better Worlds . Agnes Etherington Arts Center, Kingston , Canada.
Web links
- Literature by and about Luis Jacob in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Luis Jacob in the documenta archive
- Luis Jacob at the Birch Libralato Gallery (formerly Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto)
- Luis Jacob on kunstaspekte.de
literature
Henry Keazor, “The Stuff You May Have Missed: Art, Film and Metareference in The Simpsons”, in: The Metareferential Turn in Contemporary Arts and Media. Forms, Functions, Attempts at Explanation, ed. by Werner Wolf in collaboration with Katharina Bantleon and Jeff Thoss, Amsterdam / New York 2011, pp. 463–490 (shows Jacobs reference to "The Simpsons" in his work "Album III" at documenta 12 )
Individual evidence
- ^ Scott Anderson: Luis Jacob - Visual Artist . Published in University of Toronto Magazine, Summer 2007, p. 26. Online at http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/07summer/jacob.asp
- ↑ All That Is Solid Melts Into Air ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from March 21 to June 21, 2009 in the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp. (MUHKA)
- ↑ explosion LTTR: Practice More Failure. Art in General 2004. Online at http://www.artingeneral.org/projects/153
- ↑ Tomorrows News - Näyttelyvaihtoprojekti Suomen ja Kanadan välillä. Tim Dallett, Tagny Duff, Milutin Gubash, Isabelle Hayeur, Luis Jacob & Jason St-Laurent, May 23 - June 19, 2003, online at www.hippolyte.fi/projekti/tiedote/kanada.pdf (Finnish)
- ^ Past exhibitions: 2002 . Better Worlds: Activist and Utopian Projects by Artists - The Blah Blah Blah Collective, Eleanor Bond, Tony Cokes, Luis Jacob, Istvan Kantor, Mindy Yan Miller, Robin Pacific and New Error Art Collaborative. Online at http://www.aeac.ca/pubs/index.html#past
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jacob, Luis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lima |