Helene Jacubowitz
Belgium
Hélène Jacubowitz: essence and form
Almost all her works in bronze are as if they were shaped by light and evoke, at least as far as I am concerned, the irresistible inclination to touch them. Hélène Jacubowitz has developed a sculptural form that enables her to pass on not only a feeling of space but also of movement. Follow the lines, the form, the movement, the equilibrium. As a unity of movement as a complex of elegance it is very successful. Her sculptures are like sensitive poems , of which you cannot change one letter.
Hélène Jacubowitz has now been working for more than thirty years developing her own style of stereometrically simplified physical volumes. She makes chiefly female figures rising in spirals and in which she applies the achievements of the cubistic repertoire in a contemporary way. In recent years she conducts the interaction between volume and space clearly into the direction of expressive, lyric, dynamic, but also monumental sculptures.
Hélène Jacubowitz has become an eminent classical-modern sculptress in bronze. She created tall, abstract-figurative figures, extremely subtly modelled. Her mainly female figures radiate a quiet grace and sensitivity bringing life to the bronze. Hélène Jacubowitz’s oeuvre is as if it was an antidote against the ongoing mechanization of the human existence. In addition she has developed her own sculptural language of forms. Her studio is not an ivory tower, screened off from the industrial, urban and exciting modern world, but it is a place where one reflects on the artist’s role in this topicality. Hence the earlier described monumental projects in enterprises and in public areas.
That the whole process of sculpting in bronze takes time means that you can fathom into the depth and that you can avoid superficiality. Hélène Jacubowitz succeeds in it. She knows to use her technical abilities to penetrate into the human psyche through her sculptures. The recognition of her talent is consequently growing and as far as I am concerned rightfully so. She exhibited individually and in group in interesting galleries all over Belgium, Holland, Luxemburg, France, Italy, Sweden, Israel and the United States... About twenty of her works are in public ownership in Belgium, Holland, France, Denmark, Poland and Israel. She was awarded eight prizes in Belgium, France, England and Sweden.
I conclude. For nearly three decades already Hélène Jacubowitz strives unwearyingly and painstakingly for an always purer and more perfect unity of forms in an immaculate finish. With her biomorphic sculptures she advances a vitalist movement against the excessive stress of the consciousness and the ratio. And isn’t this a beautiful humanistic message at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Ernest Van Buynder
Honorary President MuHKA
June 2020
Revealed Beauty
Gazing the horizon
Musique au féminin
