Netherlands, 1952
I was born on an agriculturally oriented, socialistic and communal way of living Studying, completing my obligations to my family, and surroundings. In 1976 I changed my life to traveling which later turned me to taking/adapting a sort of flaneur-like way of living. I lived this way and did not really change it entirely until this present day.
Education: NSCAD University from 1983-85, N.S, Canada.
Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam from 1985-89. Following on, established myself, living and working in the Netherlands, very near to the North Sea, raising my family and making a few selective groups of friends. artist biography:
* The existence the genesis of my work, it is sorts of collection, from an existentialistic process and views. small anecdotes, situations, just a series of experiences which collected & translated into sketches, reliefs, forms-work-. maybe a trail to perpetuate some of what comes on my path…
It is very much about ‘my own journey, there in a way I am both, the viewer, and the participants at same time. It is as I am far and above but also walking along the path, kicking some stones along the way.
It is much about this walk, journey like, experiences, thoughts, imaginations, and scenery… it is first and foremost… the atmosphere I’m experiencing during this - ‘being there’- in the process in the walk.
my works do not belong to any ‘one’ category or direction, as for me it is all about the search than anything else.
And yes, at the end of the day when I’m Looking at my work as an over whole,
as total… then I like them to talk, scream? preferably just sing…
Noam Ben-jacov.
As by nature being sort of flaneur, I take the human being as the center on this planet as I am fascinated by the human - his basic elementary behavior and what comes with it. It has led me to find and create my own form of art that I call body sculpture performance. It uses/takes the human in the most elementary, existential position, putting the human at the center of my creation, emphasizing physicality, mental and emotional movement space with sounds being created throughout.
I like seeing, emphasizing the essential. The very basic seeing where it all leads me into thinking, yes, I do love this un-known, even sometime cherish this aspect of creation. When the creation unit is complete, I love/need to work on the synthesis - the relation between the work, the human and the space where it is being performed.
Since 1986 to the present, I have created about 10 different body-sculptural objects that are mostly directly related as a result of a very important, significant event in my life, having my own children, and looking for a place to live. So often my work happens not really in an awareness of this, but more as a spontaneous response. But, yes, they all are direct, a bit less or more connected to me. And yes, at the end of the day when I am looking over my work as a whole, in total… then I like them to talk, scream? preferably just sing…
Noam Ben-jacov.