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Peter
Jacobs, who has been involved with the art of collage
for over two decades,has developed a complex visual
language tht seeks to reconcile the rational with
the irrational. Jacobs collages are usually comprised
of spliced images applied toan architectonic framework.
The stability of the architectural foundation allows
him to juxtapose incongruous elements that, in spite
of themselves, produce a singular cohesive vision.
Instinctively the artist seems to assert the primacy
of visual relationships over knowledge: in his world
it is color, line and space , not reason , that are
determinants of logic. The art of collage, as a reconfiguration
of discarded images, is a medium destined to render
order out of chaos. Jacobs has understood this inherent
dilemna and resolves it in a manner that is decidedly
postmodern. Passages of humor and wit, beauty and nature,
psychology and rhetoric, coexist as a fragmented though
unified whole. Indeed, Jacobs continues to reconsider
the formal aspects of collage while adhering to the
basic principles of its Cubist origins,as an ironic
form of expression.
Marina Delaney
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