Patrick Jacobs PSYCHOPOMP dal 5 Ottobre 2024 al 15 Gennaio 2025
Opening
5 Ottobre 2024, h 12:30 > h 20:30
La Andrea Nuovo Home Gallery presenta “PSYCHOPOMP”, prima personale a Napoli dell'artista newyorkese Patrick Jacobs, dalle ore 12:30 alle 20:30, in via Monte di Dio 61, a Napoli.
L’Andrea Nuovo Home Gallery è lieta di invitarvi all’opening di Psychopomp, prima personale a Napoli di Patrick Jacobs. L’artista, da tempo conosciuto per le installazioni di micro mondi immaginifici e per la ricerca estetica di valore metafisico, nel corso della sua pratica recente ha intrapreso un percorso di esplorazione nel segno di una risemantizzazione di soggetti e di temi collegati all’alterazione della materia viva e alle pulsioni umane più primitive e di come esse, plasmate dal contrasto fra mezzi espressivi, tecniche ed elementi, agiscono rivelandosi ai limiti imposti dalla fisicità. La mostra, accompagnata dal testo critico di Bartholomew F. Bland, comprende 25 lavori inediti tra cui sculture, monotipie “viscose”, diorami e carte da parati realizzate a mano. Psychopomp fa riferimento agli spiriti che guidano le anime nell’aldilà mentre varcano la soglia da un regno all’altro. Il desiderio psicologico di sicurezza e di guida dopo la morte – oppure verso altri stadi di trasmutazione – rappresenta ciò che Jacobs esplora come un bisogno umano elementare. Varianti della figura dello psicopompo come guida spirituale sono presenti in diversi fedi dall’antichità greca e romana (Caronte il traghettatore degli inferi) alle religioni ancora praticate (San Michele che accompagna le anime in paradiso). Benché l’artista attinga a svariati filoni tradizionali le sue sono creazioni che emergono come risultato di un prolifico intreccio della natura: umano, animale e vegetale. Le scene boschivi dei diorami di Jacobs sono aperture verso i mondi dell’alterità dove egli dà vita non solo a una foresta o a un paesaggio ma a qualcosa di spettrale, fantastico e drammatico, in un tempo sospeso e in luoghi non riscontrabili nella realtà ma al limite dei sogni. Nell’opera “Yellow Owl” dal predominante giallo acido prende forma un gufo – per l’artista metafora decisamente affine allo psicopompo – che riposa idillicamente su un ramo con alle spalle un mondo in toni fulgidi e caldi che preannuncia una prossima dimensione di delizie. La presenza di questo rapace echeggia anche nella serie di monotipie nelle quali però si innesca una sconvolgente trasformazione materica, cromatica nonché spaziale. Nei lavori come “Swamp thing blu” o “Moss Man” appaiono creature blobulari, caotiche e indisciplinate che emanano un’energia maniacale appena contenuta dalla natura bidimensionale del loro supporto; sono esseri ambivalenti – rudi e morbidi – ma soprattutto pervasi da una quasi minacciosa valenza sessuale come a voler sprigionare il desiderio umano primordiale. Nella loro raffigurazione scultorea mutano ancora una volta, diventando spiritelli bronzei la cui fisicità compare inaspettata nel giardino della Home Gallery. Il progetto espositivo, che nasce dal profondo studio dell’artista sulla dicotomia, delinea dunque un percorso multidimensionale e riflessivo che stimola e mette in moto la percezione della materia e dello spazio e guida lo spettatore nei possibili sentieri che si aprono su altri mondi di coscienza.
“Jacobs, utopista memorabile dell’arte contemporanea, ha una visione dell’aldilà più vicina a quella del “paese delle meraviglie” che non quella dell’inferno terrificante e buio. Per lui è un luogo in cui trovare risposte alle nostre domande, per comprendere finalmente i desideri che inconsciamente ci guidano”. (B. Bland).
Patrick Jacobs
Nato nel 1971, si è laureato in Belle Arti con specializzazione in scultura alla School of the Art Institute of Chicago nel 1999. Il lavoro di Patrick Jacobs abbraccia una vasta gamma di discipline tra cui scultura, installazione e incisione. Il paesaggio e il mondo naturale forniscono sia l'ambientazione che l'argomento per questioni che riguardano il corpo, il desiderio e l'identità in modi spesso ambigui o poetici.
Le sue opere sono state oggetto di numerose mostre personali: Les Fleurs du Mal: Three Bronzes presso ArtScapes a Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania; Nocturnes alla Pierogi Gallery, New York City (2020), The Pool NYC, Milano, Italia, e al Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO (2019); Come Closer to Me, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY; Pink Autumn, The Art Gallery, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL (2015); Patrick Jacobs, Exchiesetta, Polignano a Mare, Italia (2014); Patrick Jacobs: Telescopic Vistas, Zadok Gallery, Art Miami Context, Miami, FL; Interiors: From Within Outward, The Pool NYC, Volta NYC, New York, NY (2012); Familiar Terrain, Patrick Jacobs, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY (2011); Dioramas, Patrick Jacobs, The Pool NYC, Moretti Fine Art, Londra, Regno Unito (2010); Patrick Jacobs, Fundacia “La Caixa” (9th Cycle of Interventions at the Vestibule; Transport to Summer) curate da Chris Gilbert & Cira Pascual Marquina, Lleida, Spagna (2005); Celebrity Appearance/Cancelled Show, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY (2003).
Importanti sono anche le sue partecipazioni a mostre collettive: The Romantic Eye al Nationalmuseum di Stoccolma e in Wonderland: Curious Nature al Giardino Botanico di New York. Le mostre passate includono: Modalità No Humans, a cura di Massimo Sgroi, Andrea Nuovo Home Gallery, Napoli, Italia (2021); The Origins Of The Modern Landscape, 1820–2020: A Contemporary Perspective, a cura di Jovana Stokic, PhD, Jill Newhouse Gallery, The Art Show, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY (2020); A Walk in the Woods, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Mind’s Eye, Pierogi, New York, NY; Hey Look Us Over!, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL; Notturno Piú, The Pool NYC, Venezia, Italia; Aera Synthetica, Surveying New Nature – A Markus Haala Project, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA; Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY (2019).
Le sue opere sono presenti nelle collezioni permanenti del Pérez Art Museum (Miami, FL), del Museum of Arts and Design (NY, NY), del Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AK), del Portland Museum of Art (Portland, ME), Colección SOLO (Madrid, Spagna), e numerose importanti collezioni private. Ha ricevuto premi e residenze dalla Pollock-Krasner Foundation, dal Kansas City Art Institute, dalla MacDowell Colony, dalla New York Foundation for the Arts e da Bad Wiessee. Jacobs vive e lavora a Brooklyn, New York.
Ulteriori informazioni:
https://www.andreanuovo.com/artists/patrick-jacobs/
La mostra sarà visitabile fino al 15 Gennaio 2025 negli orari d’apertura della galleria.
Ingresso libero.
PATRICK JACOBS
PSYCHOPOMP
from October 5th 2024 to January 15th 2025
Opening
October 5th 2024, 12.30pm > 8.30pm
Andrea Nuovo Home Gallery presents “PSYCHOPOMP”, the first solo show in Naples of the New Yorker artist Patrick Jacobs, from 12:30 to 20:30, at via Monte di Dio 61, Naples.
The Andrea Nuovo Home Gallery is pleased to invite you to the opening of Psychopomp, the first solo exhibition by Patrick Jacobs in Naples. The artist, long known for his installations of imaginative micro worlds and for his aesthetic research of metaphysical value, has in the course of his recent practice undertaken a path of exploration in the name of a re-semanticization of subjects and themes connected to the alteration of living matter and the most primitive human impulses and how they, shaped by the contrast between expressive means, techniques and elements, act by revealing themselves to the limits imposed by physicality. The exhibition, accompanied by the critical text by Bartholomew F. Bland, includes 25 unpublished works among which sculptures, “viscosity” monotypes, dioramas and hand-made wallpapers. Psychopomp is the term used to describe the spirits that guide souls into the afterlife when they cross the threshold from one realm to another. The psychological desire for security and guidance after death – or towards other stages of transmutation – represents what Jacobs explores as a basic human need. The psychological desire for safety and guidance after death - or towards other stages of transmutation – represents what Jacobs explores as a fundamental human need. Variants of the figure of the psychopomp as spiritual guide are present in different faiths from ancient Greek and Roman (Charon the ferry driver of hell) to religions still practiced (San Michele that accompanies souls to heaven). Although the artist gets inspiration from various traditional threads, his creations emerge as a result of a prolific intertwining of human, animal and vegetal natures. The woodland scenes of Jacobs’ dioramas are openings towards the worlds of otherness where he gives life not only to a forest or a landscape but to something ghostly, fantastic and dramatic, in a suspended time and in places not found in reality but in the limit of dreams. In the work "Yellow Owl" from the predominantly acid yellow takes shape an owl – for the artist, metaphor decidedly akin to psychopomp – which rests idyllically on a branch in front of a world in bright and warm tones that foretells a next dimension of delights. The presence of this bird of prey also echoes in the series of monotypes in which, even so a shocking material, chromatic and spatial transformation is triggered. In works such as “Swamp thing (blue)” or “Moss Man” appear blob-ular, chaotic and undisciplined creatures that emanate a maniacal energy barely contained, by the two-dimensional nature, in their support. They are ambivalent beings – rough and soft – but above all pervaded by an almost threatening sexual valence, as if they wanted to unleash the primordial human desire. In their sculptural representation they mutate once again, becoming bronze entities whose physicality appears unexpectedly in the garden of the Home Gallery. The exhibition project, which arises from the artist's profound study of dichotomy, therefore outlines a multidimensional and reflective course, that stimulates and generates the perception of matter and space and, guiding the spectator along possible paths in order to recognized other consciousness spheres.
“Jacobs, a memorable utopian of contemporary art, has a vision of the afterlife closer to that of a “wonderland” than that of a terrifying and dark hell. For him, it is a place where we can find answers to our questions, to finally understand the desires that unconsciously guide us.” (B. Bland).
Patrick Jacobs
Born in 1971, Patrick Jacobs received his MFA in sculpture from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999.
Patrick Jacobs’ work spans a range of disciplines including sculpture, installation, and printmaking. Landscape and the natural world provide both the setting and subject matter for issues surrounding the body, desire and identity in ways that are often ambiguous or poetic.
His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions: Les Fleurs du Mal: Three Bronzes at ArtScapes in Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania; Nocturnes, which premiered at Pierogi Gallery, New York City (2020), The Pool NYC, Milan, Italy, and the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO (2019); Come Closer to Me, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY; Pink Autumn, The Art Gallery, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL (2015); Patrick Jacobs, Exchiesetta, Polignano a Mare, Italy (2014); Patrick Jacobs: Telescopic Vistas, Zadok Gallery, Art Miami Context, Miami, FL; Interiors: From Within Outward, The Pool NYC, Volta NYC, New York, NY (2012); Familiar Terrain, Patrick Jacobs, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY (2011); Dioramas, Patrick Jacobs, The Pool NYC, Moretti Fine Art, London, UK (2010); Patrick Jacobs, Fundacia “La Caixa” (9th Cycle of Interventions at the Vestibule; Transport to Summer). Curated by Chris Gilbert & Cira Pascual Marquina, Lleida, Spain (2005); Celebrity Appearance/Cancelled Show, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY (2003).
He has participated in group exhibitions: The Romantic Eye at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm and in Wonderland: Curious Nature at the New York Botanical Garden. Past exhibitions include Modalità No Humans, curated by Massimo Sgroi, Andrea Nuovo Home Gallery, Napoli, Italia (2021); The Origins Of The Modern Landscape, 1820–2020: A Contemporary Perspective, curated by Jovana Stokic, PhD, Jill Newhouse Gallery at The Art Show, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY (2020); A Walk in the Woods, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Mind’s Eye, Pierogi, New York, NY; Hey Look Us Over!, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL; Notturno Piú, The Pool NYC, Venice, Italy; Aera Synthetica, Surveying New Nature – A Markus Haala Project, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA; Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY (2019).
His works are included in the permanent collections of the Pérez Art Museum (Miami, FL), the Museum of Arts and Design (NY, NY), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AK), the Portland Museum of Art (Portland, ME), Colección SOLO (Madrid, Spain), and numerous significant private collections. He has received awards and residencies from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Kansas City Art Institute, the MacDowell Colony, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Bad Wiessee. Jacobs lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Jacobs lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Further informations:
https://www.andreanuovo.com/artists/patrick-jacobs/
The exhibition will be open until 15 Jannuary 2025 during the gallery opening hours.
Free admission.
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