Video: Window to nature. Patrick Jacobs's amazing dioramas from the Window series
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
You can feel like Alice in Wonderland, who looked into the keyhole of a mysterious door, at the exhibition of contemporary art, where a series of creative works are exhibited. "Window" Brooklyn artist Patrick Jacobs … And see, if not a surprisingly beautiful garden with lush rose bushes and fresh grass, then green lawns with clover and dandelions, a meadow with honey agarics and fly agarics, an autumn forest and many other scenes that are on the other side of the glass window. But it is not possible to get to these picturesque fields, meadows and forest glades. Even after eating a pie or drinking liquids from a miracle bottle. All these landscapes are talented artistic illusions, dioramas, to which Patrick Jacobs has devoted the last few years of his life. Skillfully using a concave lens that magnifies and distorts objects behind it to create a distinct visual effect of depth and volume, Patrick Jacobs transforms tufts of grass, leaves and petals, artificial rivers, lakes and forests into small landscapes. And so realistic that sometimes you catch yourself thinking - now I will open the door, and there … But there is nothing there, because all these windows are in the wall, and behind them are fictitious, illusory worlds that can be considered otherworldly. Such creative mirages, art hallucinations.
In creating these lifelike installations, Patrick Jacobs uses not only natural ingredients such as grass, leaves and flowers, but also artificial, man-made objects. So, to work, he needs acrylic, neoprene, human hair, paper, polyurethane foam, wood, wax, fabric, glass and metal. And the artist makes fragments of interiors from wood, cardboard, paper, plaster, plastic and wire. As a result, from this mountain of scattered objects that may seem like garbage and useless junk, wonderful otherworldly worlds arise that can only be admired. Look - but not touch, like a hologram.
The artist treats his work with humor and healthy self-criticism, believing that to hide the otherworldly, magical world behind a glass window is the height of madness, well, or absurdity, to put it mildly. However, many fans of amazing dioramas-illusions will not agree with the author, so his exhibitions are always crowded and popular. You can see the entire series of installations on the Patrick Jacobs website.
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