<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There is nothing ready-made about the pathos of nature. Before her hidden messages can be read, they must be perceived, and perception is anything but automatic. Rolf Jacobsen\u2019s peculiar gift is that of sensing nature\u2019s meanings, then generously bringing them forth for us.<\/p>\n This process of course entails manipulation of his materials. But therein lies a second talent \u2013 or is it rather a character trait? His ambition \u2013 his wresting of significance from nature is a high ambition \u2013 never pushes the artist to do violence to his materials. He is collaborating with his trees, with their trunks and What\u2019s more, this engagement with nature\u2019s forms is not only respectful, it is loving. Rolf\u2019s years in the Umbria of St. Francis must have strengthened his singular relation to nature, even as his Italian experience has no doubt liberated expression of the emotions underlying his Danish stillness. Our good fortune is that his work, this passionate dialogue with nature, resolves the primal paradox – Barringer Fifield<\/em>
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Rolf Jacobsen, Maler og Skulpt\u00f8r, F\u00f8dt i 1976. Han har de sidste 15 \u00e5r levet og arbejdet mellem Italien, Danmark og med flere ophold i America. I 1995 arbejdede han sammen med kunstneren Paul Madsen Cederdorff i flere kunst projekter. Igennem Paul Cederdorff, blev Rolf en del af gruppen Vestjydske Kunstnere og har siden da v\u00e6ret med p\u00e5 gruppens \u00e5rlige udstillinger. I 1999 rejste han til Italien for at studere kunst og blev optaget p\u00e5 Iternational school of art i Umbrien, en skole som var stiftet af den Amerikanske Kunstner Nicolas Carone (1917-2010) som han siden da fik et st\u00e6rkt venskab og t\u00e6t samarbejde med. Rolf\u00b4s f\u00f8rste udstilling i Italien var i 2004, han har f\u00f8lgende haft flere solo og group shows i b\u00e5de Danmark og udlandet, de seneste solo udstillinger har v\u00e6ret i 2013 Underdonk Gallery, New York, 2015 UNU unonell’unico, Italien og 2016 udstillingen Chthonic i galleriet Gorani8, Milano, Italien. Rolf’s malerier er beskrevet som abstrakt figurativ og metaphysical; hans skulptur i tr\u00e6, sten, keramik, jern, bronze og aluminium r\u00e6kker fra abstrakt-figurativ til helt abstrakt. Teknikken i Rolf’s v\u00e6rker af tr\u00e6 kendetegner sig ved at han flere gange samler og skiller stykker af tr\u00e6 fundet i naturen, hvorefter former og flader p\u00e5 s\u00f8gte steder i skulpturen bliver forbundet med gips. Igennem de sidste 5 \u00e5r har han arbejdet sammen med den anerkendte Amerikanske kunstner Beverly Pepper, hvor han bl.a. har skaffet sig erfaring med skulptur i Jern til store by monumenter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
branches and twigs.<\/p>\n
inherent in the relation of the artist and his material. Rolf\u2019s sculptures give neither the last word, but allows art\u2019s tension itself to speak out.<\/p>\n