The abstract works became a hot item among contemporary art collectors perhaps too hot, after they found favour among art market flippers.
Image courtesy of the ICAĪlas, many in the art market took a short-term view. Installation image of Jacob Kassay's 2010 silver paintings, acrylic and silver deposit on canvas. Through this simple process Kassay created uncannily engaging works that demand repeated viewing, as if the artist, as we put it in our book Vitamin P2, “is teaching us to look more closely, not just at his paintings but also at the historical lineage to which they belong.” In a short New Yorker profile in 2011 Kassay, then 27 years old, was described as “the art world’s newest star,” having found fame with his beautiful, silver-coated paintings, which Kassay created with the help of a Pennsylvanian chemical firm that specialized in electroplating, coating each canvas with a layer of metal just “atoms thick.” Jacob Kassay has experienced the kind of career problems most young artists can only dream of. Yet he seems to have reinvented himself with this new Belgian show The hot young artist fell from favour last year.
Courtesy: the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels Jacob Kassay’s comeback - as an architect Photo credit: Allard Bovenberg, Amsterdam.
Installation image from Jacob Kassay's HIJK exhibition.
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