Working with found materials such as marquee from the heath, bricks from demolished buildings, chalkstone and marble, Carl Emil Jacobsen transforms massive stones into light, thin and crisp shells of fine colour. As an ode to the richness of natural colours in the Nordic landscape, he brings new life to the powdered stone by converting it into layers of poetic coloured pigment — in bright to burnt hues — and a sculptural element in itself. His iron sculptures, some polished, some burnt, are created intuitively out of welding work without preliminary studies resulting in fragmented pieces hammered together to instinctive forms.
Carl Emil Jacobsen
Denmark
