PROLOG JASON ENGELBART
”In art there is the chance to bring faith, hope and sense into our world without following the traditional religious approaches. Art brings people consistently into contact with the being. It is a source of inspiration for the look inwards – for musing and for reflecting on one’s own perceptions and experiences. Art invigorates and enriches without demanding.“
ARTIST STATEMENT
Driven by my search for the perfect moment, the moment of perfect love, the divine, I trace these values especially in the works of sacred baroque painting. Using my characteristic digital painting technique, developed over the years, I abstract selected works of this epoch by superimposing picture levels, blurring, overpainting and re-composing them. In the process, my very own flowing structures and pictorial rhythms emerge. In sum, colors and forms swirl together with an apparent motion, coinciding yet never lost, blended yet simultaneously holding shape.
The colorful marbling effects and a simultaneous all-encompassing blur are created in a purely intuitive creative process, where I deal with reflections of my personal feelings, experiences, and a meditative affinity with the universe. In doing so, I tap into a creative mode in which I use my artistic skills to trigger a deeper reflection in others about the nature of our daily co-existence as a result.
My Works invite the viewer to consider the spaces of our lives that we are able to perceive at a subtle level, but that which we often forget or ignore in our day to day. In a restless and at times superficial world, I would like to remind us of the love, the freedom and joy as our natural birthright. My artworks are a testament to a cultivation of wholesome, human qualities, for positive change and development, which I state as my principle artistic vision.
The underlying historical works thereby experience a current dimension of perception while at the same time creating the impression of a déjà-vu when contemplating my abstract neo paintings. Through this form of digitally painterly, an abstract re-staging of the Baroque painting, I build a finely balanced bridge to contemporary art without disenchanting.
ARTISTIC TECHNIQUE AND MATERIALS
Neopaintings – This designation for Jason Engelbart’s works stands for the topicality of his work in our digital age and is also his artistic program. Because since 2010 he works and experiments with the diverse digital tools of the computer. But despite their purely technical origins, Engelbart’s work does not appear to be overcooled technologically, but rather looks like artfully executed, extremely sensitive color compositions. This is the special magic of his so-called neopaintings. The transfer of the initially immaterial image to the material manifestation is done in the printing process on high-quality photographic material with subsequent framing on Alu-Dibond and final high-gloss sealing. The interplay of unconventional working methods and contemporary materials ensures the uniqueness in Jason Engelbart’s work. Each of his artworks is strictly limited to one large-size original, personally signed and comes with a certificate of authenticity.
A limited edition of small-size fine art prints on paper are reserved.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Jason Engelbart (born 1960) lives and works in Hamburg
EDUCATION
Study 1980 – 1984 Art & Design Academy ALSTERDAMM – SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS I Hamburg I Germany I Master Class of Professor Lothar Walter
Degree in Art and Design
AUCTIONS:
2020 I VAN HAM Cologne I First PArt Charity Auction I PRODUCERS ART initiated by the Spiegelberger Stiftung,
Hamburg
2021 I VAN HAM Cologne I Second PArt Charity Auction I PRODUCERS ART initiated by the Spiegelberger Stiftung, Hamburg
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JASON ENGELBART WORKS AT SINGULART:
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AWARDS:
2022 I INTERNATIONAL ART AWARD I Honorable Mention Award I IAA New Generations Miami Edition
2022 I CONTEMPORARY ART COLLECTORS I Emergine Artist Programme 2022/2023
2022 I CIRCLE FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS I Artist of the Month January 2022
2021 I 4ART WORLD AWARD I 1st Place I Artist of the Year 2021
2020 I ITSLIQUID INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 7. EDITION 2020
Honorable Mention Publication Award
2018 I International Art Award I 2nd Art Expo International Ingolstadt I Germany
2018 I KITZ ART AWARD 2018 I Austria
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 – BAROUQUE PASSION – Art Empire Gallery – Solo Online Exhibition, Germany
2022 – NEW GENERATIONS – MIAMI EDITION, International Art Award – Online Exhibition, Miami, United States
2022 – LUCCA ART FAIR of modern and contemporary art, Context Gallery, Lucca, Italy
2022 – HOPE – Virtual Group Exhibition, Curated by Capital Culture House Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2021 – THE WAY – Virtual Group Show, Curated by Albe Art Gallery I St. Petersburg
2021 – ETERNITY – Virtual Group Show, Curated by Capital Culture House Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2021 – MOON ART FAIR – Westin Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Curated by Dr. Barbara Aust-Wegemund
2021 – AUGMENTED REALITY ART SHOW – City of Hamburg . Curated by the gallery MEETFRIDA . Hamburg . Germany
2021 – MULTIMEDIA OUTDOOR EVENT – Art Show „Parkfunkeln“ City Park Norderstedt/Hamburg, Germany
2021 – FAST FORWARD – Curated by the gallery MEETFRIDA . Hamburg . Germany
2021 – SPRING EXHIBITION – The Yard . New York City
2021 – MINDFULNESS I VISIONARY PROJECTS – Curated by Voss Gallery San Francisco, international online exhibition
2021 – PRELUDE TO HOPE AND REBIRTH – Ki Smith Gallery . New York City
2021 – ART TAKES 2021 – See I Me, international online exhibition
2021 – ART WALK BERLIN, FRANKFURT, LEIPZIG – Outdoor Gallery Space . art presentation on over-dimensional city billboards by MEETFRIDA . Germany
2021 – INTERNATIONAL AFFORDABLE ART FAIR – Presented by MEETFRIDA
2020 – POP-UP GALLERY EXHIBITION BY MEETFRIDA – Hamburg . Germany
2020 – CITY ART WEEK HAMBURG – Curated by the Spiegelberger Foundation Hamburg . Germany
2020 – HEAVEN & EARTH – Curated by the Artbox Gallery Zurich . Switzerland
2020 – THE JOY OF BEING – Artland Online Show in cooperation with Azaro Art Spaces . Hamburg . Germany
2020 – SWISSARTEXPO ZURICH – Presented by the Artbox Gallery Zurich . Switzerland
2020 – PRODUCERS ART (PArt) CHARITY EXHIBITION, Online Show curated by the Spiegelberger Foundation Hamburg . Germany
2019 – MULTIDIMENSIONALITY – Presented by Azaro Artspaces Hamburg . Germany
2019 – ART BASEL MIAMI I FLORIDA – Presented by the Artbox Gallery . Zurich . Switzerland
2019 – ARTBOX SCREEN SHOW – Curated by the Artbox Gallery . Zurich . Switzerland
2019 – CONTRARY CONNECTED, Azaro Artspaces Hamburg. Germany
2019 – SWISSARTEXPO ZURICH – Presented by the Artbox Gallery Zurich . Switzerland
2018 – THE ARMORY ART WEEKS I NEW YORK – Presented by the Artbox Gallery Zurich . Switzerland
2018 – EMOZIONI ASTRATTE – Curated by the Galleria ArtTime . Italy
2018 – II. ART EXPO INTERNATIONAL . Ingolstadt. Germany
2018 – BEYOND ART – Curated by the Werkkunst Gallery . Hamburg . Germany
2018 – ARTBOX SCREEN SHOW – Curated by the Artbox Gallery Zurich . Switzerland
2018 – IMAGINE I MUSIC & ART – Presented by the Werkkunst Gallery . Hamburg . Germany
2017 – TRANSFORMATIONS, Gallery Space L‘Etoile Properties . Hamburg . Germany
2014 – 8. KUNSTFRÜHLING BREMEN, Art Festival Bremen – Represented by the Gallery SCHIMMING, Hamburg . Germany
2014 – WITH LOVE FOR LIFE, Light Art Projection Show, Christ Church Hamburg . Germany
2013 – CROSS/OVER/FUSION – Art Festival, Hamburg Art Week . Hamburg . Germany
2012 – CUTTINGS, Paintings and Drawings, Showroom Axel Cramer, Stilwerk Hamburg . Germany
2011 – LYRICAL SENSATION, NeoPaintings, Law Office Mahlmann, Hamburg . Germany
ART COLLECTIONS / PURCHASES BY COMPANIES:
PRIVAT ART COLLECTION MUNZEL, Bad Homburg v.d.Höhe, Germany
KANZLEI MAHLMANN, Hamburg, Germany
L’ETOILE PROPERTIES, Hamburg . Paris . London, International
FAMOS IMMOBILIEN GMBH, Hamburg . Korschenbroich, Germany
S.OLIVER GROUP, Würzburg, Germany