Bidspirit auction | Yitzhak Jacobs

Yitzhak Jacobs - ”Prayer” 2021. Oil on canvas 120/174 cm signed Yitzhak Jacobs (1965) born in London, England, immigrated to Israel at the age of 5. Lives as a creator in the south of Tel Aviv, he is a free spirit who looks at the world with a discerning eye, creates in his paintings imaginary scenes from regions known mainly from his wanderings in the streets of Tel Aviv, the city where he lives and creates. In his paintings, he succeeds in creating fascinating enigmatic connections in which characters who initially seem foreign participate, and only a deep and inquisitive look at his paintings reveals the humorous layers hidden from view. He studied animation at Bezalel, art studies at Saint Martin's College in London and photography at Camera Obscura. After devoting a decade to animation, the artist went back to the sources, to oil painting on canvas. Returning to real materials after a long period of digital work, was not obvious and the transition was not easy. The first works in painting dealt with opera. Jacobs selected frames from the opera and put them on canvas. These days, the range of his subjects is much wider, from the most everyday to surreal montages. Jacobs' paintings were shown in several exhibitions at Egozi Gallery in Tel Aviv, and in other galleries, most of his works are today in private collections in Israel and around the world.