Rainer Jacob (b. Jena, 1970; lives and works in Leipzig) has anonymously installed objects made of ice in public settings in cities including Berlin, Leipzig, Paris, Moscow, Oslo, Prague, and Budapest since 2013. He then allows them to dematerialize and records the process in photographs. Radiators, wall outlets, QR codes, and the Duchampian pissoir are among his recurrent motifs. The impermanence of the ice objects builds bridges to street art, Fluxus, and action art. Critical observations on the unequal distribution of resources and political power in contemporary society, his works reflect on our perceptions and question the idea of originality in art while also probing the outer limits of sculpture.<\/p>\n
The publication showcases the ice objects of the past ten years, embedding them in a decade that has marked a sea change in the life of humankind: JustICE<\/em> captures an artist\u2019s distinctive perspective on societal processes.<\/p>\n Rainer Jacob trained as a stonemason before studying painting and graphic art at the Dresden University of Fine Arts (HfBK) from 1990 until 1992. He won the first prize at the 2019 art-figura and the Neuer S\u00e4chsischer Kunstverein\u2019s \u201cEmergency Break\u201d award in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rainer Jacob (b. Jena, 1970; lives and works in Leipzig) has anonymously installed objects made of ice in public settings in cities including Berlin, Leipzig, Paris, Moscow, Oslo, Prague, and Budapest since 2013. He then allows them to dematerialize and records the process in photographs. Radiators, wall outlets, QR codes, and the Duchampian pissoir are among his recurrent motifs. The impermanence of the ice objects builds bridges to street art, Fluxus, and action art. Critical observations on the unequal distribution of resources and political power in contemporary society, his works reflect on our perceptions and question the idea of originality in art while also probing the outer limits of sculpture.<\/p>\n The publication showcases the ice objects of the past ten years, embedding them in a decade that has marked a sea change in the life of humankind: JustICE<\/em> captures an artist\u2019s distinctive perspective on societal processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":19473,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[2208,2217],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19480","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-all-books","7":"product_cat-sculpture","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"taxable","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n