Gray Sculptural Vase with Platin #4 by Michael Geertsen

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Gray Sculptural Vase with Platin #4 by Michael Geertsen

About the Item

Gray sculptural vase by Michael Geertsen for his exhibition: Still Life, Still Lives. His new works have reinterpreted ancient Greek pottery, taking the classical forms and integrating them with modernist elements. He adds antlers, knobs and nipples in metallic gold and platinum. The gold and platinum protrusions create mirror like reflections which, when placed next to other works, distort the forms further, shifting perceptions of their form or shape. Geertsen says his use of gold and silver is a nod to Western decadence. He started using these elements in his work while exploring Soviet constructivism where gold and silver screamed hedonism, abundance and American kitsch. The use of gold and silver is also a reaction against 1960s naturalistic pottery, making the works cheeky and stylized. The artist and scholar Edmond de Waals described his work as always “questioning the place that ceramics has inhabited, as well as the place that ceramics will inhabit in the future.” Michael’s most recent innovations have made that statement even more fitting. Artist Statement: I characterize my exploration of ceramics in this exhibition, 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.

Creator:
Michael Geertsen (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 9.3 in (23.63 cm)Width: 10.3 in (26.17 cm)Depth: 10.4 in (26.42 cm)
Materials and Techniques:
Earthenware
Place of Origin:
Denmark
Period:
21st Century
Date of Manufacture:
2014
Condition:
Seller Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
Seller: GEE1041stDibs: LU90511155302