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Article: Points of no return: Michael Geertsen.
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- Ceramics Art & Perception
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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MICHAEL GEERTSEN'S LATEST EXPLORATION OF THE ceramic field in the exhibition Black Holes & Revelations can be characterised as an eclectic manifesto. In meta-artistic terms and with complete naturalness he cites art, design and architectural historical currents and epochs. Movement as motif, in both the decorations and the sculptural is one of a number of interesting pivotal points. It is energetic, capturing space, unfolding without resistance in, and at times, complex encounter between the decorative elements and the actual objects' sculptural body.
For Michael Geertsen the monochromatic and the collage have been the common ...