Noam Ben-Jacov

It did happen in one afternoon just after the middle of last century, I was born on a kibbutz, (a communal living based then… around and on the agricultural productions), somewhere in the north of Israel.
After fulfilled my schooling&all other obligations which comes with, so in 1976, I got the urge exploring the world, life… wanting, experiencing, viewing the world from as many different facets, angles, aspects, human views ,on my own way and time, speed sound and movements…, flying in to the ultimate freedom, crossing as many boundaries as I will be facing on my way, doing lots of things you not supposed to do hade to check it all by my own eyes foot &nose, when all-risk’s all are on me , all (and more… ) that I could imagine …
I do love that things we calling - time-, to my mind the only real thing which really does matters, the time we breath, move, living our life, the time we are passing from our birth to our end-dead however what I’m the most fascinated is by the ‘zigzags…the circles and other lines we creating on our way , this in between our birth to our promised -End and to this I’m calling the process so this process is most fascinating me of all .
…the existence, the coming to be of my work is sorts of c...

'83-"85 nova scotia univrsity of art &design,hallifax,nova scotia.CA
'85-'89 G.Rietveld academy ,Amstredam,The Netherlad.

My artist Statements

To the existence of my work… sorts of collection, existentialistic process...? , small anecdotes, situations, perhaps just series of experiences which I collected & translated into sketches, reliefs, forms-work-.
It is very much about the ‘journey ‘my own journey, there I am in away both, the viewer and the participants at same time. It is as I am far and above but also walking along the same path, kicking some stones along the way.
It is about this walk, sorts of journey like, experiences, thoughts, imaginations and scenery… perhaps it is first and foremost about the atmosphere I’m experiencing during this - ‘being there’- in the process in the walk.
I do not look at my works as belonging to any ‘one’ specific category or direction, as for me it is after all more about the search than anything else.
And yes, at the end of the day when I’m Looking at my work as an over whole,
as total… then I like them to talk, scream? preferably just sing…
Noam Ben-jacov.