Ben Jacob is born in San Juan, Argentina. He begins dedicating itself to the study of music from the 7 years. During his adolescence and youth he continues his artistic studies with different teachers of theatre, crossing several sorts: Greek, classic theatre, pantomime, comedy of the art, masks.

Continuing its way of anxious investigation of the vital expression, it soon passes through the photography and the painting to arrive, finally, to make specific its ideas of the form through the metal work.

It express in this stage its coincident ideas with the concepts of the constructivism, shapes acquired cognitive schemes in his relation with the art, the culture and, essentially, with the means that surround it, looking for to integrate itself to the Earth history.

Their vision of the present reality and the future, induces it to express itself with elements offered by the Earth in their interaction the fire, by to be elements used by primitive cultures, to incorporate them to here and now.

From that search of expression that waters in most archaic, it has a feeling a return, from the future, to those times in which the man had, with its earth and the fruits who this one gave, a respectful, intimate contact, without causing damages to him.

Within the ceremonial dialogue between metal, fire and author -who is simultaneously game and shared dance- takes place the great manifestation of freedom when facilitating that, after the movement and the transformations produced by the action of the fire, go to appearing spontaneous forms that Horseradish tree Jacob accepts and celebrates being expression of a wonderful double group dialogue: metal, fire and man; matter, forms, colour and sensitivity.