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Mon approche de la céramique peut se caractériser par un manifeste éclectique.

En therme meta-artistique et de façon totalement naturelle je fait reference à l’art, au design, aux courants historiques architecturaux et aux différentes époques.

La forme, aussi bien en therme de décor qu’en sculpture, est un des sujets pertinents de mon travail: elle est énergétique, elle occupe l’espace, et naît d’une rencontre complexe entre les élements décoratifs et l’objet en soit pour former un “Corps sculptural”.

Les sculptures que je réalise ont l’apparence de corps vivants, habités tant à l’intérieur qu’à l’extérieur par des cylindres, des entonoirs, des cônes dont les formes invisibles à l’œil sont néanmoins existantes.

L’autre aspect de la forme fait reference au corps sculptural et paraphrase le courant Américain des années 40 ainsi que l’approche sculpturale du Futurisme.

L’obsession de la vitesse de ces deux courants a été totalement élliminée dans la version scandinave du Modernisme.

À travers des formes et les rajouts ludiques j’exprime plus ou moins la totalité du Mouvement Moderne qui prend ses racines dans la fameuse remarque du Manifeste de Adolf Loos de 1908 “ Tout ornement est un crime”.

 

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Exposed Work

CV Michael Geertsen

born 2 Oct. 1966 in Denmark.

Michael Geertsen (b. 1966) trained as a potter in Stensved, Denmark in 1988 and graduated from the department of

Industrial Design at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design in 1993. His works are represented at

the Metropolitan Museum, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum and MAD/Museum of Arts and Design, all in New

York City, The Victoria and Albert Museum in London and Designmuseum Denmark in Copenhagen. In 2012 he created

the permanent installation ‘White Noise’ at The V&A in London.

EDUCATION

1988-93 Danish Design school, Copenhagen

1984-88 Trained with a potter (apprentice)

MUSEUMS REPRESENTATIONS

Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, USA

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

Designmuseum Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

Næstved Museum, Næstved. Denmark

Trapholt Kunstmuseum, Kolding, Denmark

Magnelli Museum, Vallauris, Frankrig.

Ceramic Museum, Inceon, Korea.

Museum of Fine Art, Huston, Texas, USA

Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum. Tronheim. Norway

RAM – Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin, USA

Fuller Museum, Massachusetts, USA

FULE ceramic Museum, Fuping, China

McManus museum, Dundee, Scotland

CLAY International Ceramic Museum, Denmark

COMMISSIONS

Hempel Glassmuseum. Permanent intervention with the Porcelain Collection. DK

Victoria & Albert Museum. Permanent Installation. London. UK

Nordea Bank, Denmark, Conference room, Copenhagen

60 m2 mural in Centrum of Hanoi, Vietnam

Site specific commission, OJD Holding, Solrød Strand

Site specific commission, Copenhagen’s teachers Union

Plant pots for Pompeisalen, Carlsberg Academy, Copenhagen

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)

Cybernetique – Galerie NeC nilsson et chiglien – Paris 2020

ECHO – Trapholt Art Museum. Denmark 2019

Intervention – Bornholm Art Museum. Denmark 2018

Spring Time – Jason Jacques Gallery. New York 2018

Vases – Køppe Contemporary Objects – Copenhagen 2018

Shapes and Things – Super object gallery – Copenhagen 2015

Galerie NeC nilsson et chiglien – Paris 2015

Geertsen Versus – Næstved Museum, Denmark 2014

Still Life Still Lives – Jason Jacques Gallery – New York 2014

Dialogue with History – Galleri Specta – Copenhagen 2013

We come in Peace – Jason Jacques Gallery – New York 2011

Michael Geertsen – A-Gallery – Copenhagen 2010

Six PM- Edmund De Wall’s Studio – London 2008

Black Holes and Revalations – Drud & Køppe Gallery – Copenhagen 2007

Duo show with Bodil Manz, Tong in Gallery, Seoul, South Korea 2006

Museumsbygningen, Copenhagen 2004

Garth Clark Gallery, Long Island City 2003

Puls – Contemporary Ceramics, Brussels 2001, 2014

Clara Scremini Gallery, Paris 2001, 2003

Galleri Nørby, Copenhagen 2002

GRANTS / PUBLIC AWARDS

Inga & Eivind Kold Christsensens Honor Prize

Annie & Otto Joh. Detlefs Ceramic Prize, Denmark

Ceramic Biennial Vallauris, winner in the category ”Container”, France

Silver, World Ceramic Biennale in Korea

The Danish Art Foundation. Denmark

Prize awarded by the Danish Arts Foundation

The Danish Arts Foundation three-year grant

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)

Nordic Design: ULTIMATE IMPACT Copenhagen 2017

EDITION – Simone De Sousa Gallery – Detroit – USA 2015

Random Growth – Sarah Myerscough – London – 2015/16

MINDCRAFT – Milano. Danish Crafts 2013

Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics. Museum of Fine Art. Houston 2012

Flora & Fauna – MAD about Nature. Museum of Arts & Design NYC 2011

Across – Carlsberg, Copenhagen 2010

European Ceramic Context. Bornholm Art Museum 2010

Cheongju international Craft Biennale 2009, South Korea

Kuwait Art Foundation LLC, Kuwait

Opening exhibition, Museum of Arts & Design, Columbus Circle. NYC, USA

Statistic Ceramic – group show med New Danish Ceramics, Røska Museum, Gøteborg

Statistic Ceramic – group show med New Danish Ceramics, Kunst & Gewerbe, Hamborg

Intervention with Magnelli. Magnelli Museum Vallauris, France

Ceramic competition Mino, Japan

PRESENT – New Nordic Ceramic, Norway

World Ceramic Biennale, Korea

FUNK ART, Køppe Gallery, Cph. DK

Scripps College 62nd Ceramic Annual, Claremont, CA, USA

‘Danish’ framing the future of Danish Design, The Danish Embassy, Berlin.

Terra Nova, MAD Museum, New York City

‘Danish’ framing the future of Danish design. Danish Design Centre, Copenhagen.

A Secret History of Clay, From Gauguin to Gormley, Tate Liverpool

‘Stuff-ingenuity and critique’, Toronto, Canada

David Lusk Gallery, Memphis Tennessee, USA

’From the Kilns of Denmark’, The Danish House in Paris and The Danish Embassy, Berlin

‘From the Kilns of Denmark’ Contemporary Danish Ceramics, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts.

Mingei International Museum, San Diego, California. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California. Racine Art

Museum, Racine, Wisconsin.

‘New Danish Ceramics’, Danish Museum of Decorative Art. Copenhagen