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Since Danish sculptor Carl Emil Jacobsen graduated from Kolding School of Design in 2012, his practice has oscillated between art and design, revolving around existentialism, ritualistic sophistication and solid craftsmanship.
Working with found materials such as stones 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.
Inspired by the dictum of late Danish sculptor Willy Ørskov's theory that "the content of the sculpture is sculpture", his nonfigurative sculptures exist on their own terms as abstract, physical forms fostering experiential connection over intellectual interference in the elastic borderland between nature and culture.
Carl Emil Jacobsen is represented by Galerie Maria Wettergren in Paris and has been exhibited at Art Basel, PAD, Clay Museum of Ceramic Art Denmark, Mindcraft Exhibition in Milan, Patrick Parrish Gallery, Chamber Gallery, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Piscine and elsewhere.