JAK (artist group)

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JAK is a multimedia artist group from the field of conceptual art .

life and work

The artist JAK has appeared in many ways over the past few years - as an artist , as a patient in a psychological report , in an early work from 2011 or 2012 as a fictional character in the novel of the same name by the Iranian writer Hamed Taheri . Since 2013, JAK has been focusing on working as a director and screenwriter on the film Soul Blindness , a story about the mental illness of visual agnosia - soul blindness . In exhibitions, actions from the script are concretized into space-consuming installations, sculptural stage sets and picturesque miniature scenes. JAK's artistic work develops in a highly complex manner and is precisely thought out. He transforms his concept into sensual, imaginative worlds of thought and thus develops the script for Soul Blindness step by step with each exhibition.

In 2014 he created the room installation Soul Blindness - Prolog for the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts in Taipei. JAK covered all the walls of the museum with a carpet of black letters. The specially developed typographic painting hid the texts from the script in a geometric abstraction.

In the work In Silence in the Villa Merkel in Esslingen, a tree standing on an inclined, green reflective surface made of epoxy resin rises 7.5 meters like the backdrop of a film set. In another room, the work Tableau of Woolf Thoughts describes a landscape of flowing mist and floating objects made of porcelain , a scene from the script. In the work Indescribable Scenes , miniature drawings are formed into stage sets and cast in epoxy resin.

Exhibitions

• 2017: Soul Blindness, Fall into Indescribable Scenes , Villa Merkel , Esslingen, Germany
• 2017: The Five Moons , Pyeongchang Biennale, South Korea
• 2016: A Sustaining Life , Gallery Waterfall, New York, USA
• 2015: Cut to :, Galerieverein Leonberg, Germany
• 2014: Soul Blindness - Prologue , Kuandu Museum of fine Art Taipei, Taiwan
• 2013: Hunting , Württembergischer Kunstverein (WKV), Stuttgart, Germany
• 2012: Lively competition , Galerie Stihl Waiblingen , Germany
• 2011: JAK , Hospitalhof Stuttgart , Germany
• 2011: Behind the Foreign , Galeria Studio, Kulturpalast , Warsaw, Poland
• 2010: Imported Stranger , Space Bandee, Busan, Korea

Publications

• JAK . Novel by Hamed Taheri, conception and design Demian Bern (German, English and English / Korean). EXP.edition, 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-039050-0 .
• JAK, Active Competition . Hospitalhof Stuttgart 2012. ISBN 978-3-934320-48-2 .
• JAK Wants to Remain Anonymus , 2016–2017.
• Soul Blindness, Fall into Indescribable Scenes . Snoek Verlag, Cologne, 2017. ISBN 978-3-86442-222-5 .

Web links

• Website of JAK
• Württembergischer Kunstverein (January 2014)
• Openspace Bae, Busan, Korea
• Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation
• Akademie Schloss Solitude

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Atelier JAK: CV , accessed on December 14, 2019.
2. ↑ The most beautiful books from all over the world , Stiftung Buchkunst , 2014.
3. ↑ The Alphabet of Soul Blindness , in: Sonnendeck , July / August 2017.
4. ↑ JAK, Soul Blindness in the Villa Merkel in Esslingen , in: Neckar Fernsehen, accessed on June 16, 2017.