Guggenheim Museum: Personal Narratives

Andy Warhol Dept: For Jacob, a Toronto-based artist who is 39, but with his lithe frame, olive skin and almond eyes, seems much younger, it was a moment to savour, according to The Star. In recent years, though, things have changed for Jacob, and quickly. A few days earlier, he had just finished showing in the distinctly less gritty, gracefully curling rotunda of the fabled Guggenheim Museum uptown. One of his Album series carefully arrayed selections of found images grouped to build what appear to be highly personal narratives using mass media was shown there in a sprawling, superstar-laden show called Haunted , alongside work by such icons as Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol and nEW YORK On a narrow block south of Canal Street in what must be one of the last bastions of urban grit in an ever-glossifying Lower Manhattan, Luis Jacob was in his element recently, greeting a growing throng of admirers with a gentle touch of the hand, a hug, a smile. It was the September opening of his show Without Persons at Art in General, one of New York's vanguard independent galleries, and a comfort zone for an artist whose commitment to ground-level art making has been a hallmark of his career. As reported in the news.
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