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Text by Finn Thrane, founder and former director of The Museum of Photo Art in Odense:
"The launch pad for the art career of Jacob Juhl is studies in Information Science,
multimediadesign and communication. With all these eggs in the same basket a
painter was hatched, next a photographer and today a visual artist in explosive progress…"
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Artist statement:
“I am not a photographer, but I choose to use the possibilities of photography to create
art. I don’t take pictures “of something”, but create fictitious motifs by utilizing photography
and image processing...”
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Kopenhagen Art Institute recommended my exhibition AASYN:
"Images of the human form have always been captivating, especially when it’s distorted,
fragmented or interpreted in alternative ways. I’m intrigued by the highly relational aesthetic
of Kirsten Schausers paintings and the hyperreal quality of Jacob Juhls photographic works"
(Anja Lindholm, MA in Modern Culture)
Press release from the exhibition AASYN at Galerie Pi, 2011:
“It’s not every day that you step into an exhibition and feel that you might as well have
looked at yourself in the mirror. That is, if you have a little self criticism! Image, branding,
identity, self-promotion...”
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Text about my paintings (before 2009) by art historian Lisbet Marschner:
“Jacob Juhl challenges himself in relation to the world on an archetypal plane - and thereby
the challenge goes for all of us. The motives pose a series of profound questions, as does
life itself: where are we...”
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