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Max Jacobs

sociaal-maatschappelijk , sculptuur , printen (3D) , mens , Digitale technologie , Conceptueel , beeldhouwen , Analytisch

Max Jacobs is an artist who uses a unique approach to sculpting. He takes inspiration from art history and Western religion to create works that criticise and reflect on societal stigmas, personal experiences, and critical discourses.
Jacobs uses the combination of digital sculpting and 3d printing to bring his sculptures to life. This combination of digital and tactile art challenges the way viewers perceive sculpture and redefines its essence in the modern era.
Each of Jacobs' pieces is a dialogue between the past and present, a testament to the enduring power of sculpture as a medium of exploration and expression.

Prince of the vatican
Prince of the vatican - September 2025 - This sculpture shows a cardinal. Cardinals are often called the princes of the Vatican, elevated above ordinary people. Yet they are still human. This work makes that visible: the older cardinal holds his smartphone in a posture we all recognize. It is the awkward, slightly comical stance of the elderly using technology never designed for their aging hands. In that moment, the cardinal is no different from my grandfather, a veterinarian. The titles they hold, the rank they stand on in the Church, these mean nothing in the end. The grandeur collapses into absurdity.
Proto
Proto - March 2025 - “Proto” is my imagined form of a god—not the deity defined in religious texts, but a being far older, more alien, and unbound by the human need to see itself reflected in the divine. Raised Christian but now agnostic, I was deeply struck by the biblical descriptions of angels: not gentle, winged beings, but cosmic and monstrous forces beyond comprehension. This sculpture stems from that space—between belief and disbelief, between awe and fear. It is my interpretation of what a god might be if stripped of human projection. It’s not beautiful in the classical sense, but perhaps truer in its unknowability. The figure is seated in a meditative pose—calm, still, yet haunting. Its head, which I call a Proto Skull, is not a skull in the traditional sense, but a preface to one—an embryonic suggestion of what might eventually become a human face. But there are no eyes, mouth, or ears. Why would a god need them? Its body reflects the tension of familiarity and otherness. It bears limbs and hands, yet its anatomy is distorted, stretched, and unfinished—bones that seem to pierce the skin, proportions that feel wrong but deliberate. The god is humanoid in outline but fundamentally unknowable in essence. The entire sculpture was conceived digitally, composed of twenty separate parts, and eventually fused into one. It was realized physically through 3D printing, translating the digital concept into tangible form. This process of fragmentation and unification echoes the sculpture’s own symbolism: the transition from potential to form, from scattered essence to singular presence. Though deeply personal, “Proto” is not meant to dictate meaning. Embedded within its form are symbolic elements, left deliberately open for interpretation. It invites the viewer to reflect on their own ideas of divinity, of origins, of what it means to believe—or not believe—in something greater than ourselves.
Hubris. 2024 - 3D print
Series 1 - Deathlessness - Digital Render 2024
Series 1 - Eternal embrace - Digital render 2024
My Own Goliath: A Fragmented Reckoning 2023 - Exposed at HAL curated by Herman Lamers October
My Own Goliath - Exposed at HAL curated by Herman Lamers September
Improbable Papacy - 3D printed sculpture - 2023

Big Art 2024

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Locatie: Slotervaart ziekenhuis

Big Art is een jaarlijkse expositie van groter werk. Het heeft een divers aanbod wat van te voren door een selectie heen gaat.
Max presenteerde hier zijn restauratie werk van Pope Johanna

https://bigart.nu/

Pavilioen

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Locatie: Brielselaan 157, 3081 AC Rotterdam
In samenwerking met: Jake Kelly

Ik was uitgenodigd door Jake Kelly een kunstenaar die een kunst performance gaf in Paviljoen aan het water in Rotterdam. Waarbij hij een maand lang diners verzorgde en combineerde dit met kunst . Hier heb ik een werk getoond wat ik die zomer had gerealiseerd.

https://www.paviljoenaanhetwater.com/

Het Archief Robert Fruinstraat Beeldentuin

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Locatie: Robertfruinstraat 52

De Buitenruimte van het gebouw het Archief, is veranderd in een sculpture park. De beelden worden door het jaar verwisseld en aangepast.

https://hilton-art-lab.com/

Bachelor Beeldende kunst

Datum:
Locatie: Willem de Kooning

MIjn bachelor Hbo Beeldende kunst afgerond

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