Interesting work hangs in the small gallery of Ingela S. Once inside, you see abstract, colourful work as well as imposing metal male figures. This artist, Leif Jacobsson, likes working with big, rough materials.
Jacobsson’s work is strong, masculine and monumental. I especially liked the large male figures for their monumentality, but also for the technique Jacobsson uses, as shown in the image above. He shapes strips of metal and puts them together in an open structure, until it results in a human form. This makes it possible to see through the figure, and it makes the metal on the one hand behave like a harness, but on the other hand like human flesh, ribs or muscle tissue, because the forms are organic, and because the human figure is not complete. That makes these works fascinating.
Also the painting ‘Expansion’, a large, almost abstract painting that depicts an enormous city as far as the eye can see was a very strong image to me. However, I have some difficulty with the abstract works with leading titles such as ‘Threat’ and ‘Roaring Silence’. On his website he writes about these works as “poetical expression of nature”, and there he lost me. To me it gets a bit too far-fetched there, because we have to believe the word of the artist to view and understand the artwork. An artwork should stand on its own, not guided by a name, hoping that anyone would recognise the theme in it, because people do, or they simply don’t, whether you give hints in names or not. But then again, also the technique of these works is again impeccable, so they are definitely worth taking a look at.
Tomorrow is the last day this exhibition is on show at:
Galleri Ingela S
Klara Östra Kyrkogata 2 A, Stockholm
Geen opmerkingen:
Een reactie posten