| Dani Jakob Of a Land |
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Two materials co-exist at the heart of Dani Jakob’s work: salt and silk. The artist paints and devises installations.
The vibrantly coloured, abstractly geometric silk paintings that look like an »abstract model of the cranium« contrast with the amorphous salt pictures created using the chemical process of salt crystalisation and that are reminiscent of aerial photographs of distand lands and coastlines. She interlinks both of these opposites in spatially expansive floor paintings. Her »geometrical eye« places a landscape into a space, is derived from a lake of salt without perspective, an anti-space, a non-place, interlinks then, »draws lines, noting trajectories of movement«, rhythmatises them arriving at a symmetry and creates a utopian space. »A land« that defies unequivocal decipherment. The artist’s book documents Dani Jakob’s most recent works from 2005 – 2007 in 30 images with large illustrations and detailed views. These compositions enter into a conversation with a lyrical text by Klaus Theweleit, which was especially written for this book and runs all the way through it. Biography |
US$ 25.00 | ||