MARTIN JACOBSON – LANDSCAPES
2014-05-19Martin Jacobson’s most recent watercolours and oil paintings depict landscapes in an almost unreal range of colours. The starting point is images found on the “scrap heap” of art history. Jacobson collects images at flea markets, second hand bookshops and on the internet. He looks for archetypical motifs and themes such as sunsets, moonlight, forests, water, sky and roads. Interpreting the originals is a way for Martin Jacobson to create an image that is both new and old, familiar and unknown. It is an attempt to repair the gap that time and space have created between the present time and the found image. In the works in the exhibition, Jacobson has more particularly focused on light and colour phenomena, which he feels correspond to the human condition. The sunset reminds us of time passing by and the dancing flecks of flight of the movement of all things.
Through painting I want to give myself a push over the threshold. I try to create images, which I cannot imagine and can only appear through painting. I begin with an idea. After a while I must abandon the original idea and follow the will of the image. I feel I have succeeded when the image has taken me to a previously unknown place. Without me getting lost on the way. Every image is a step of the way, a fragment of a larger image. The impetus to depict is a way for me to create a link between the depicted and myself. To give an abstract experience a concrete form.
Martin Jacobson
Opposite – Landscape 7, 2014
Exhibition runs through to June 21st, 2014
Andréhn-Schiptjenko
Hudiksvallsgatan 8
Stockholm
Sweden
