Luis Jacob: Reality Effect
Luis Jacob Tableaux: Pictures at an Exhibition 2010 Installation view Darling Foundry Courtesy Birch Libralato / photo Guy L'Heureux
With showings at documenta 12 in 2007 and at New York’s Guggenheim Museum in 2008, Toronto artist Luis Jacob suddenly found himself perched at the edge of a seismic art career change. After all, Jacob is well known on the Toronto art scene and elsewhere for his down-to-earth attitude and socially engaged, locally based brand of art and activism, a reputation that arguably rests at odds with the demands of a burgeoning international career. What better time, then, for Jacob to pause and take stock of his roots, which is exactly what he did in a pair of recent solo exhibitions at the Darling Foundry in Montreal and at Toronto’s Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. In our summer magazine feature “Questions of Framing,” Canadian Art assistant editor David Balzer tracks Jacob’s rise on the eve of his MOCCA exhibition, finding the artist refreshingly grounded amid growing international acclaim. Here, a bonus selection of installation images from the exhibitions in Toronto and Montreal offers further evidence of Jacob’s resilient critical perspective.
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