This ambiguous mode of expression constitutes a balancing nerve in Danish artist Carl Emil Jacobsen’s work, and with Comb a Hairy Doughnut Flat – the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition – the exhibition space is turned into a workshop and a piece of nature. With the process as its own goal and an almost ritualistic attention on the breakdown of materials and the physical shaping, Carl Emil Jacobsen’s abstract sculptures are oozing an insisting, sensuous appeal.

Comb a Hairy Doughnut Flat – that borrows its title from a mathematical theory about the geometry and spatial dynamics of curved surfaces – present a new series of pigment-painted sculptures made in fiber concrete and acrylic as well as a distinctive space displaying sketches and models. The exhibition is built up as a transitory scenography which unfolds in three different phases during the exhibition period. Based on the working titles First Impression, Odd Couple and On the Other Side Jacobsen rearranges the works in order to examine the process as a material and the relational changeability of the works.