Luis Jacob "Pictures at an Exhibition" at MOCCA

Last night attendees at the Museum Of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) gathered in the large main space for an exhibit called Pictures at an Exhibition with works by Luis Jacob.  

The highlight of the show was the work from his recent series They Sleep With One Eye Open (2008). True to their title, the paintings on large canvases (each numbered in the series) looked like huge eyes starring back at the viewer amidst a bold colourful palette of psychedelic hues: bright orange, yellow, fuchsia and eye-popping blue. 

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Show Details:

Main Space
Luis Jacob: Pictures at an Exhibition
Curated by David Liss

Feb 04, 2011 - Mar 27, 2011
More about Luis Jacob from MOCCA's website.

Luis Jacob has achieved an international reputation, particularly since his participation in Documenta 12 in 2007, with solo exhibitions at the Städtisches Museum Abteiberg and the Hamburger Kunstverein, and in Canada at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, the Darling Foundry and Musée d’art de Joliette. In 2010 his work was featured at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, in the exhibition Haunted: Contemporary Photography/ Video/ Performance, and in the Kunsthalle Bern in the exhibition Animism. Luis Jacob is represented by Birch Libralato, Toronto.

 

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