During her real or imaginary, inward or outside wanderings, Haviva Jacobson loves to go up multiple crossing ways and cross-roads, to follow the meanders and paths of gardens and country side places, trying to find out their codes and secret entries. Going to the source of the different cultures she is wearing in herself, she makes a sort of straddling of the legs between Israël, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, where she was raised and studied, and Switzerland, the inner Rhodes of the canton of Appenzell, where she lives.

These so different worlds, translated into the works of the artist, are on one hand colourful, sprinkled with a variety of floral and vegetal essences of a great richness, pictorially expressed with pigments on wood the artist is preparing herself; on the other hand a totally different approach, with acrylic and transparent glass support and black form traces, executed with ink or painting, also inspired from nature.

The artist, observer, sensitive, is inspired by the surrounding world. Each piece of work, generally of small size, will find its place either alone or in combination with others, in order to create an ensemble of large dimensions. This assemblage of various sizes, offering infinite combinatory possibilities, permits, at the end, to create a whole multi-coloured wall, which incarnates the expressive strength and originality of the artist. At the contact of this type of work the eye of the spectator can plunge into it, give free way to its imagination, get impregnated with it, taken by its freshness, the youth of its landscapes, plants, flowers, waterfalls perhaps, even though the whole work is essentially painting before being subject. A dynamic emanates from this ensemble; the size of the works is decreasing, the larger ones being at the higher level, the smallest ones at the bottom. Therefore the glance is moving, attracted by the vivacity of the colours, pinks, violets, lemon-yellows, each one used in multiples tones.

The works on acrylic glass, alternating transparency and black, inscribe with sobriety and talent, with withholding and poetry.
An exhibition strongly contrasted between colour and rigour.

Haviva Jacobson lives and works in Appenzell. Studies at the Fine Arts School in Jerusalem (1985), then in Tel Aviv and Florence (Art School Lorenzo di Medici, 1991). Numerous individual and group exhibitions in Switzerland, namely in Zurich, Basle, St. Gallen, Davos, Appenzell (museum). Visarte member.
Work on cover : Transparent 120 x 80 cm, acrylic glass, 2012-2013




Dr.Danielle Junod-Sugnaux

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	Haviva Jacobson