Far Fetched, in Carrara the hallucinated visions of Jesse Jacobs, master of the underground scene

From June 2 to July 28, 2018, Tabularasa Teké Gallery in Carrara is hosting the exhibition Far Fetched, a solo show by Jesse Jacobs (Moncton, 1981), a Canadian artist who is one of the leading figures on the contemporary international underground scene. This is the first solo show in the gallery of the young artist who, we read in the presentation of the exhibition curated by Marco Cirillo Pedri, “fully represents, with his comics, the spirit of the veteran of the war fought to cathode ray tubes and first cell phones of the latest generation, a war with the purpose of instupidating the masses, making them more and more dependent on the machine, less and less dependent on free thought (as already prophesied, among others, Professor Bad Trip at the turn of the 80s and 90s). Jacobs’ experience fits into a branch of contemporary illustration and comics that sees so many protagonists from America and Canada (Jesse Moynihan, Michael DeForge, Patrick Kyle to name a few) all with in common an adolescence spent in the 1980s and 1990s where the psychedelia of drugs merged with the psychedelia of early video games and high-budget special effects science fiction and fantasy films.”

Jacobs’ world is populated by improbable anthropomorphic mutants who move and dance their way through adventures of various kinds, creating a zootropic, lysergic effect that makes the exhibition’s title (“far-fetched” in fact means “far-fetched, improbable”) particularly overt. The exhibition thus celebrates this 1980s aesthetic with black light and fluorescent colors reminiscent of the sets of Tron or Big Trouble in China Town, actualized with Jacobs’ masks that create an electro-tribal world “based on the worship of how far the human mind can go by observing creation in its most peripheral nuances.” In the last room of the exhibition, in order to immerse the visitor even more in this bewildering world, a kind of temple for the worship of 1980s tribal worship has been recreated: there will be a chance to immerse oneself in a pure visual celebration for the worship of a new aesthetic based on the evolution of the 8 Bit Generation’s thought and taste.

The exhibition opens Monday through Thursday from 4 to 8 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 4 to 10 p.m. Closed Sundays. The exhibition is accompanied by the monographic color book with texts and critical essays by Marco Cirillo Pedri, Vittore Baroni, Robert Clough, Stefano Dazzi, Alessandra Ioalé, Marco Taddei and Henry Flames. In addition, the entire iconographic apparatus of the works is accompanied by Vittore Baroni’s interview with Jesse Jacobs, made during the author’s winter stay in Carrara. For collectors and amateurs, the first 250 copies of the publication are enhanced by a limited and numbered edition silkscreen. For info: www.tekegallery.com.

Far Fetched, in Carrara the hallucinated visions of Jesse Jacobs, master of the underground scene

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