Galerie Ramakers is pleased to present a solo exhibition featuring the work of Michael Jacklin in collaboration with Slewe Gallery. I was introduced to Jacklin's work in the early 1990s, during my internship at Kunst en Bedrijf, and have continued to follow his development ever since.
I am therefore pleased to now show a selection from his rich body of work in the gallery. Jacklin's work fits seamlessly with that of other sculptors the gallery represents.
Michael Jacklin (b. 1956) is known for his, sometimes man-sized, metal grid sculptures.
He is one of the few fundamentally working sculptors of his generation. This is evident in his attention to the pure properties of the material and to sculptural principles such as size, rhythm and gravity. He has been working in iron since 1984. The preference for this material stems from his fascination with industrially manufactured iron structures.
In recent years, most of his work has been made of bar iron. Using basic shapes such as square and circle, cube and sphere, he builds up an image.
The grid-like sculptures starting in 1998 are made of strip iron of different sizes. There creates a subtle play of lines and intervals as you move around them.
The exhibition will include sculptures from various periods. So that you get a clear picture of what his work stands for.
In 2019 his work was included in the exhibition Negative Space at ZKM in Karlsruhe and in 2017 some of his large monumental works were shown at Art Zuid, a biennial outdoor sculpture route in Amsterdam curated by Rudi Fuchs. He had an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 2002 and at the Kunstvereniging Diepenheim in 2000. His works are included in several public collections, including the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, ABN AMRO Art Collection and AkzoNobel Art Foundation, as well as in many private collections. He has also completed several public commissions in Rotterdam, Amstelveen and Municipality of Haarlemmermeer.
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