Jacob Dahl Jürgensen's Biography and Exhibitions

acob Dahl Jürgensen's work is informed by astage and the museum to create a self-reflexive
blurred recollection of the histories of Modernistplatform for examining past and present
art and design; the social and spiritual ideologiesattempts to live beyond the hegemonic paradigm"
and aesthetics underpinning much of the creative- Michelle Cotton
output of the avant-garde but seen through theJacob Dahl Jürgensen has exhibited
distorting prism of contemporary culture.internationally, most recently at Galerie Kamm,
Jurgensen’s Folly (The Mystical’s Sphere)Berlin, Foxy Production, New York, and at
nods to the futuristic architecture of Tatlin andSchnittraum, Cologne. He will participate in
Fuller; the sparse copper structure standing as a'Curacione Geomtricaa', a group show, at The
theatrical oracle, emanating a primitive occultismReliance in May and a group show at Galerie
from the power of low-watt light bulbs.intertwiningRüdiger Schöttle, Munich, in July. He is
recognisable forms and ideologies with fragmentscurrently exhibiting a collaborative work in Simon
of popular culture to create ritualistic monumentsDybbroe Møller's show 'On Ill Winds and Loss of
divining a contemporary spirituality.Sanity' at westlondonprojects.Jacob Dahl
Foxy Production presents recent work by FrankJürgensen combines references to avant-garde
Hannon, Jacob Dahl Jürgensen and Davidaesthetics, esoterica and popular culture. Staged
Noonan, three London-based artists who examineas items reminiscent of an ethnographical
interconnections between memory, performance,collection, his sculptures can be perceived as
and ritual. Making the known seem uncanny, theyritualistic relics from a semi-recognizable civilization.
mix references and genres to explore howIn 'Astrolabe' (2005) for instance, a battered
common practices and codes can determinemirror-ball suspended in a constructivist frame is
notions of self."Within Jürgensen's theatre ofpresented along with other artifacts as a primitive
ideas, scientific principles are read in the runes ofastrological device found in an archaeological
alchemical experimentation and symbols that referexcavation. Jürgensen's sculptures function like
to mystic cults are mixed with others that mirrorsmall narratives that create paradoxes and
the signs of contemporary, urban society. Quotedparallels which seem just as obvious as they are
and choreographed within a discourse of display,impossible.what to Do Next...
Jürgensen borrows framing devices from the