David Jacobson – Don’t save me, Save water!

For this year’s Time Space Existence, five of David’s stone sculptures and a site-specific installation “Earth Lung” are exhibited in Giardini della Marinaressa – the public Venetian gardens that are restored and made open to the public by the European Cultural Centre.

David Jacobson, is a British sculptor who works between London and Italy. His works have been widely exhibited across the UK, USA, Italy, France, Switzerland, Japan, Spain, and South Africa. His work is represented in public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Basler Afrikanischer Bibliotek, the Modena Museum of Art, and Castello dei Nelson in Sicily.

For this year’s Time Space Existence, five of David’s stone sculptures and a site-specific installation “Earth Lung” are exhibited in Giardini della Marinaressa – the public Venetian gardens that are restored and made open to the public by the European Cultural Centre.


Opening Time Space Existence at Giardini della Marinaressa. Photo credits: Federico Vespignani

David Jacobson at the opening of Time Space Existence. Photo credits: Matteo Losurdo

In the wake of lockdowns and travel bans, David links his sculptures, works and aspirations with critically important issues that need to be urgently addressed. David’s stone sculptures address the concerns about our abuse of water and the systematic pollution of our planet and mankind’s contribution to exacerbating climate change. In purely sculptural terms, in architectural terms, and in terms of the pandemic which made open spaces of our cities and towns. Jacobson used the opportunity to make Earth Lung, a response to Covid19, a respiratory disease, after witnessing how nature so clearly showed its incredible powers of recovery when our way of life was so diverted from its frenetic carbon-emitting march. Parks, gardens, and green spaces are the lungs of our cities!

Stone works by David Jacobson. Photo credits: Federico Vespignani

Close up on David’s work. Photo credits: Matteo Losurdo

The importance of protecting nature and changing our “bad habits” are topics dear to David; the ideas and reinterpretations that the artist proposes have an ironic flavor, without dramatic or apocalyptic connotations, to better highlight the profound contradictions that represent our age.

Nature has reclaimed much of its territory since the beginning of the pandemic with fewer cars, trains, planes, and less industry. The air is cleaner, the water bodies are clearer, and birds have returned en masse to our cities and green spaces. However, will this continue?

Stone work by David Jacobson. Photo credits: Matteo Losurdo

David’s initiative, launched during the openings of Time Space Existence on 20 and 21 May, is fundraising for WaterAid: an international not-for-profit, determined to make clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone, everywhere within a generation.

He clearly states: “we must act urgently to support our environment and not exacerbate climate change. We must stop polluting our oceans, our rivers, and our lands. Providing clean accessible water is a sure way to start the healing process”

You can be part of David’s campaign “Don’t save me, save water” and donate to WaterAid and be part of the change! – donate here!

Watch David Jacobson’s interview on @ecc_italy IGTV channel to discover more about his works at Giardini della Marinaressa.

Don’t Save me, Save Water bottles. Photo credits: Matteo Losurdo

David Jacobson’s stone sculptures. Photo credits: Matteo Losurdo

David Jacobson – Don’t save me, Save water!

For this year’s Time Space Existence, five of David’s stone sculptures and a site-specific installation “Earth Lung” are exhibited in Giardini della Marinaressa – the public Venetian gardens that are restored and made open to the public by the European Cultural Centre.

  • Published: 07.06.2021
  • Category: In Focus
  • Subject: Participants
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