Studio Note
Max Jacobim’s work begins with a gesture dismissed almost as soon as it is learned: the press of a bare finger into paint.
Within that single mark, he expresses the full weight of human experience. Solitude, discipline, memory, and the impulse to preserve what adulthood teaches us to conceal.
First they mocked me. Then they copied me. Now they want to become me. But I am nobody. I never have been anyone, and that is the point. Everything emerges from nothing, because nothing is the only thing pure enough to contain everything. All else is lost with age.
Selected
Selected works
Pl. I
Heart (Crimson, for a room)
MMXIV. Pigment on linen. Private collection.
Pl. II
The Pineapple (Major)
MMXXIV. Pigment on linen. Private collection.
Pl. III
A Field of Hands
MMXV. Pigment on linen. Private collection.
Pl. IV
Caterpillar (with Leaf)
MMXV. Pigment on linen. Private collection.
Pl. V
Palm
MMXVIII. Pigment on linen. Private collection.
Pl. VI
Sun (Over Water)
MMXXI. Pigment on linen. Private collection.
The Legend
The 360° Turn.
“A stroke so perfect it overwhelms the senses.”
Read The Three-Hundred-Sixty-Degree Turn →Jacobim's Philosophy
“Children do not make primitive art. Adults make overcorrected art.”
The First Correction begins when instinct becomes conscious of its audience.
Read The First Correction →
The Practice
The paintings are made without tools. Pigment is warmed in the palm before it touches the linen.
Acquisition · By written introduction
Works are placed privately.
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