Jørgen Jakobsen - Roots and Music of Art

30 Oct 1998 - 03 Jan 1999

The guests are represented for a total picture of Jørgen Jacobsen and his art, all the way from he was young and autodidactively painted his first oilpaintings and in his thirties, among other things with the series Average Citizen started to experiment with etchings and through a couple of decades where he was working with the "heavy" oilpaintings. It brought him to the more poetic but also more expressive paintings from the middle of the 80ties and futher on.

Etchings, lithographs, ceramics and paintings are to be seen, just like more of the artist's decorations are documented. Jørgen Jakobsen is first of all painter and is working with the painting and it's premisses. Play, freedom, but also concentrations of a different world perceived by the senses is to be seen in the colouring. A deep, pure and intrepid joy by the life of the garden and the changes in the landscapes through the year are written in the paintings of the artist, which are containing transparent figures and elements from the nature, but the exhibition has abstraction as a mark, as well.

Furthermore the exhibition shows a line of objects from Silkeborg Museum to make clear how the many years' interess for archeology in Gudenaa/the area of Silkeborg have had a great importance. The land and land scapes of Jutland for example the hills of Gjern which have surrounded Jørgen Jacobsen most of his life have been an important and daily inspiration and background for his art. Culture is in these meanings a important concept to understand the life and art of Jørgen Jakobsen. The interaction between life and art will be illuminated by photographies and curiosities of the artist's collection.