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Jacob Gils is a Danish Photographer. The works of Gils have been shown world wide at exhibitions, art fairs as well as in large-scale corporations and private collections. Amongst other Gils is represented at Nanjing Institute of Visual Arts (China), Danish Cultural Institute in Beijing, Boston Properties, LEGO A/S, Maersk A/S in Denmark and the collection of TRH Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary.

Biography
Gils was born into an artistic family in Gentofte. His mother, painter Merete Hansen, and father, painter Ove Gils, met each other at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Awards

 * 2012 [[Prix De La Photographie Paris]] in the category “Fine Art - Altered Images”
 * 2015 [[Prix De La Photographie Paris ]] in the category “Fine Art - Nudes”.

Education and Career
Jacob Gils graduated from The Copenhagen School of Photography in 1989, where he worked under Danish Photographer Leif Schiller. He has been working as a successful editorial and commercial Photographer of commissioned work. In 2001 he dedicated himself to a fine art practice and started his experimental phase with the different expressions of the photography.

Works
Whether turning his eye to iconic structures and landscape sceneries in MOVEMENT, the female body in Limit To Your Love or to the more intimate and personal depictions in his Portrait series, Jacob Gils creates fragmented, draped and deconstructed visual puzzles. All series are representative for the artist’s interest in how to push the boundaries of the photographic media, technique and composition.

Movement
Gils’ series Movement was originally conceived as an experiment and investigation into the potential of the photographic genre. The motifs are all from different cities around the world, depicting iconic squares, attractions or tropes found in nature. What at first glance might appear as abstract, or out of focus, is actually a collection of very sharp images gathered in one image, creating a feeling of time and space by using multiple exposures. This methodological approach is representative for Gils’ photographic style, and holds both references to impressionist painting, as well as simultaneously maintaining a degree of detail characteristic for modern photography.

Limit To Your Love
Initiated by a wish to break away from controlled predefined photography Gils employs a distinct technique by transferring multiple Polaroids onto watercolour paper and then dividing each photo into multiple fields. The paper’s textured surface makes it difficult to completely control the process thus adding an element of chance to the final image. The random distortions seen as white areas on the surfaces ensure that the fields in the images are never identical. For the best results Gils has to work at night in total darkness, and the process requires perfect timing and temperatures.

Portraits
Though Gils has worked with portrait taking in many different capacities his Portrait series stands out with its specific aesthetical style. The images are initially taken in black and white, after which the portrayed women are asked to choose their colour of preference, which is then added to the image. The initially quite reduced expression operates as an expressive element, with the portrayed women, in part, controlling the final outcome themselves. By presenting a graphically reduced image, the focus shifts away from a more purely physical exploration, to the capturing of the personal inner landscape.

Art fairs/Exhibitions
Photofairs Shanghai, 21 - 23 September Photo Monaco, 4 – 8 April. Soloshow, The Photography Show presented by Aipad, New York 4 - 8 April. Soloshow, Art Central, Hong Kong 27 March – 1 April. Photofairs San Francisco, 22 - 25 February. In The Gallery, The Extended Moment, solo exhibition, Copenhagen, 5 January - 3 March.
 * 2018:

Photofairs Shanghai, 7-10 September. HS Gallery, Shanghai, solo exhibition, 11 March - 28 April. Soloshow, Art Central, Hong Kong 20 - 25 March. Artelli Gallery, Antwerpen, 23 Feb - 23 March. Photofairs San Francisco, 26 - 29 January. Project B, Movement, solo exhibition, Milan, 17 January - 21 February. In The Gallery, New Perspectives, solo exhibition, Copenhagen, 6 January - 25 February.
 * 2017:

Fotofever, Paris, 10 - 13 October. Leica Gallery, LA, 20 October - 28 November. KIAF, Seoul, 12 - 16 October. Photofairs Shanghai, 9 - 11 September. In the Gallery, solo exhibition, Copenhagen, 2 July – 7 September. Scope Basel, 14 - 19 June. MIA Milan, solo display, 28 April - May 2. Struck Contemporary, solo exhibition, Toronto, April 22 - May 22. Scope New York, 5 – 8 March.
 * 2016:

Scope Miami,1 - 10 December. Galerie Bettina, Paris, 19 November – 11 January (2016). Fotofever Paris, 13 - 15 November. Photo Shanghai, 10 - 13 September. Art CPH, 18 - 20 September. Copenhagen Photo Festival, solo exhibition, 3 - 12 July. Paris Photo LA, 1 - 3 May. MIA Milan, 11 - 13 April. Photo LA, 15 - 18 January.
 * 2015:

Fotofever Paris, 10–12 November. Art CPH, 19 - 21 September. Photo Shanghai, 4-5 September. Copenhagen Photo Festival, 5-15 June. In the Gallery, duo exhibition with Naja Utzon, Copenhagen, 3 April–17 May.
 * 2014:

Art CPH, solo exhibition 2 May-31 August. Copenhagen Photo Festival, solo exhibition, 6-16 June. In the Gallery, solo exhibition, Copenhagen, September
 * 2013:

Copenhagen Photo Festival, solo exhibition, 7-17 June. In the Gallery Copenhagen, solo exhibition, 25 May–10 August.
 * 2012:

Copenhagen Photo Festival, 9-19 June.
 * 2011: