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The limitless world of artist Bert Jacobs (interview) by Emi Vergels for The Word Magazine, 2017
Bert Jacobs (interview) by Valerie Steenhaut for Subbacultcha, The Sixpack Issue, June, 2016 "The practice of Bert Jacobs exists out of installations, drawings, graphics and photography. His works depart from found footage or found situations. In his drawings Bert Jacobs creates abstract and concrete spaces that are used as a study for an actual installation. The result is a three-dimensional sculpture, partly existing out of drawings and paintings, partly physically present, offering a space in the middle between a two dimensional perspective and a tangible presence. Bert Jacobs uses his installations and exhibitions as a reason to invite other artists to perform and play music. During these events visual art, music and performance collide in a persistent totality." Alan Quireyns, AIR Antwerpen "Bert Jacobs knows as an artist how to build a fascinating visual universe around him, in a fair and consistent manner, regardless of the whims of the contemporary art market. Yet his work touches on many relevant topics for today, such as media archeology, the mechanisms of memory, imagination, collecting and drawing." Pieter Vermeulen "The oeuvre of Bert Jacobs is initially an impetus to look. Bert stages with found materials a new particular reality, in which memories, wonderings and imagination cross. His installations are viewing boxes in all sizes and shapes, in which objects are brought together into a new context." Kristof Reulens, Emile Van Dorenmuseum, Genk text Onder de loep, by Kristof Reulens, 2013 (.pdf) text Was ist Was, by Raf Coenjaerts, 2011 (.pdf) |