RENE JACOBS | PAINTINGS AND OBJECTS

Gold Rush, plastic figurines in an antique garden table base, 75 x 136 cm. The figurines in this artwork appear to be manically searching for more money, more gold, more wealth. But can it still be found?
Gold Rush, plastic figurines in an antique garden table base, 75 x 136 cm. The figurines in this artwork appear to be manically searching for more money, more gold, more wealth. But can it still be found?
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Archive the Dutch pigeonholing mentality. The Dutch eagerly categorize themselves and others into boxes. Plastic figurines and acrylic paint in type cases. 106 x 83 cm

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Growing Nowhere Plastic dolls in vintage wooden drawers, 59 x 59 x 9 cm, 2024   We constantly want to grow, always more. More money, more people, more economic growth, more travel, more discoveries, more more more.
Growing Nowhere Plastic dolls in vintage wooden drawers, 59 x 59 x 9 cm, 2024   We constantly want to grow, always more. More money, more people, more economic growth, more travel, more discoveries, more more more.
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Sample of the Countryside, Oil paint on Delft Blue on cigar molds. Size: 61 x 70 cm. Our beloved countryside is at risk of disappearing until nothing remains but these samples with the colors of times gone by.
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God in His Tiny, Little Universe, 2400 plastic figurines, wooden doll, in an antique drawer, 46 x 46 cm. Who says God is almighty and the universe is nearly infinite? In this artwork, a crowd gathers around a limited, golden lump meant to represent God
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Theater of Silence. Plastic dolls and colored epoxy in an antique cheese mold. 41x41x15cm. It is time to take measures, the water is rising and the first people have already disappeared below sea level, but for now it remains silent. EUR 2650.
Heaven. Plastic dolls in antique brick mold. 15 x 31 cm EUR 950. My idea of Heaven fell short as a child. It is true that everyone leads a carefree life in Heaven, but it is also a bit of a dead end.
Heaven. Plastic dolls in antique brick mold. 15 x 31 cm EUR 950. My idea of Heaven fell short as a child. It is true that everyone leads a carefree life in Heaven, but it is also a bit of a dead end.
Rene Jacobs, Archief de Branding, Olieverf op sloophout in antieke letterbakken, 83 x 86 cm Jaar: 2022. Prijs op aanvraag
Rene Jacobs, Archief de Branding, Olieverf op sloophout in antieke letterbakken, 83 x 86 cm Jaar: 2022. Prijs op aanvraag
On our way Plastic figurines in antique cheese mold. Diameter 45 cm. We're on our way but no one seems to know where to. EUR 2650.  
On our way Plastic figurines in antique cheese mold. Diameter 45 cm. We're on our way but no one seems to know where to. EUR 2650.  
Van Gogh. 70 x 90 cm. Mixed media on canvas.
Van Gogh. 70 x 90 cm. Mixed media on canvas.
The Windmill. 20x20 cm
The Windmill. 20x20 cm
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High tea with sugar, Mixed media on canvas, 85x80 cm
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Lingo, oil on canvas, 50x70 cm
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Pasaporte por favor, 70x50 cm
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Superman in Rotterdam, 20x80 cm

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SOLD. Netherlands, land of water. Plastic figurines in antique olive barrel with coloured epoxy. Diameter 67 cm.
SOLD, God is another DJ. Oil on panel, 26x32 cm
SOLD, God is another DJ. Oil on panel, 26x32 cm
SOLD. Title: 2019. Crowd images from 2019 now seem surreal and antique. Material: 200 dolls in an antique cheese mold. Size: diameter 14 cm.   
SOLD. Title: 2019. Crowd images from 2019 now seem surreal and antique. Material: 200 dolls in an antique cheese mold. Size: diameter 14 cm.   
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We are the girl with the pearl earring, 67 x 77 cm.
SOLD. Tweedeling Plastic poppetjes en MDF in antieke lade 41 x 40 cm
SOLD. Tweedeling Plastic poppetjes en MDF in antieke lade 41 x 40 cm
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SOLD. It's in the eye of the beholder New! 13 x 26 cm Acrylic paint and plastic dolls in an antique French butter mould. Price on request  

René Jacobs is a 48 year old artist who was born in Rotterdam. Rene Jacobs always has been fascinated by the past and its relation with the present. Painters like Leonardo Da Vinci, Rembrandt, Rogier van der Weyden and Vermeer have been his teachers and have remained an important source of inspiration. He has given some of their masterpieces a humorous twist to bring them back to our present time.

 

The Mona Lisa was given braces (made from iron wire and molted lead) to reveal the secret behind her mysterious smile.

 

The nun from Rogier van der Weyden is smoking a cigarette and seems to communicate with God via circles of smoke.

 

The Girl with the Pearl Earring was transformed into an image of pixels. The painting has been created with small blocks of old, painted wood. The viewer is invited to create his own girl with the pearl earring in his imagination.

 

But the work of Rene Jacobs goes beyond the recreation of well-known masterpieces. Rene Jacobs is also fascinated by the way modern times are changing the classical landscape. This theme is captured in the “battle of the windmills”. Rene Jacobs has painted some modern windmills on top of an existing, hand painted tile tableau from the fifties with classical windmills.

 

Finally the old meets the new in the painting “No Satisfaction 4 Keith” where Keith Richards is cleaning the streets to make a living. His fame has crumbled into obscurity but the rock star inside him will never die. In this painting Rene Jacobs is combining modern digital techniques with classical oil paint. Past meets present in the colourful and humorous artworks of Rene Jacobs.