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Lives well lived: Ritzi Jacobi (1941 - 2022) |
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Detail of Breeze, Ritzi Jacobi, coconut fiber, sisal, cotton 49 x 49 x 8, 2000. Photo by Tom Grotta.
Adapted from an obituary by Thomas Hirsch.
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NEW YORK, NY.- Along with artists such as Magdalena Abakanowicz and Jagoda Buic, Ritzi Jacobi was one of the European pioneers of textile art, who has established work with textile fibers in expansive, gestural, impulsive installations internationally since the 1960s. Jacobi was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1941, and studied at the arts academy there. The reliefs and objects she created together with her husband Peter Jacobi caused a sensation as early as the 1969 International Tapestry Biennal in Lausanne, Switzerland (the first of 11 in which she participated) and the 1970 Venice Biennial. The works were densely woven from vibrant fibers, and their shaggy mass and monumental size convey a rough physicality, reminiscent of the mountains of their Transylvanian homeland. They represented nature and the archaic and at the same time dealt with conscious and unconscious elementary experiences. Much of the freshness of the new tapestry movement resulted from this juxtaposition of layers, and focus on materials, Giselle Eberhard Cotton has observed (The Lausanne International Tapestry Biennials (1962-1995) The Pivotal Role of a Swiss City in the New Tapestry Movement in Eastern Europe After World War II, Textile Society of America, Symposium, September 2012).
After moving to Germany in 1970, Ritzi and Peter Jacobi initially continued their work together with the various textile fibers and layers of fragile paper and then turned to other fields of work separately. In her own work, she continued to create large reliefs that underscored the sculptural possibilities of fiber, drawing in three dimensions, creating light and shadow with fiber cables and budles of wrapped fibers. Ritzi Jacobi also worked with large, untreated cardboard elements, that conquered the surrounding space in a succinct and determined manner. Since the 1990s, she had been expanding her material repertoire to include metal and here, too, she showed abstract hatching and layers between surface and space, concentration and dissolution. Solo exhibitions and some with Peter Jacobi, have taken place at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the Musée dArt Moderne in Paris and the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. Works by the artist can be found in major museums around the world. In recent years, Ritzi Jacobi has mainly worked on large-format tapestries, partly as commissioned works, and has been in demand internationally as an expert in juries and committees. Her work is found in the permanent collections of the Minneapolis Art Institute, Minnesota and the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock. Work by Ritzi and Peter Jacobi is in numerous collections, including the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York; the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan and the Toms Pauli Foundation Collection, Lausanne, Switzerland. Ritzi Jacobi's last solo exhibition took place at Galerie Diehl in Berlin in 2019. She died in Düsseldorf, where she had lived since 2000, after a long, serious illness.
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