I characterize my exploration of ceramics as an eclectic manifesto. In meta-artistic terms and with complete naturalness, I cite historical currents and epochs of art, design and architecture. Movement as motif is a key mode in my work: energetic, capturing space, unfolding without resistance. It is a complex encounter between the decorative elements and the sculptural form of the actual object. The objects appear as pulsating bodies with cylinders, funnels and cones sucked in and out of their forms. The push and pull calls attention to the fact that this closed sculptural body has an interior; one that is cut off from the human eye but is nonetheless present as a close and meaningful active element.
Michael Geertsen
Born 1966 in Nakskov, Denmark
Education
1988-93 Danish Design School, Copenhagen
1984-88 Apprenticeship as a potter
Museum Representation
National Museum, Oslo (N)
Birmingham Museum of Art (AL, USA)
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (F)
Bornholm Art Museum (DK)
Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York (NY, USA)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (NY, USA)
Museum of Arts and Design, New York (NY, USA)
Victoria and Albert Museum, London (UK)
Designmuseum Denmark, Copenhagen (DK)
Næstved Museum, Næstved (DK)
Trapholt, Kolding (DK)
Magnelli Museum, Vallauris (F)
Ceramic Museum, Inceon (KOR)
Museum of Fine Art, Houston (TX, USA)
Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim (N)
RAM – Racine Art Museum (WI, USA)
Fuller Museum (MA, USA)
FULE ceramic Museum, Fuping (CN)
McManus museum, Dundee (UK)
CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art Denmark, Middelfart (DK)
Industrial design:
Cor Unum
Kähler
MUUTO
Fritz Hansen