Ib Geertsen Estate

Ib Geertsen Estate (DK)

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If you talk about art that moves, about actual movement in art, you are talking about mobiles. But you cannot talk about mobiles without talking about Ib Geertsen.

A significant part of Ib Geertsen's oeuvre has become synonymous with light, independently balanced sculptures of wire and the like, that float as drawings in the room where they have been hung. Geertsen calls them 'drawings in the air', because this is what they are. He first started making these three-dimensional 'drawings' around 1950.

In the mobiles Ib Geertsen has united and condensed the shapes most commonly used in his nonfigurative painting: the curved or round sequence (at times also the drop), and the broken lines, tied to each other in small nodes or axles. The artistic challenge – for the artist – is to create an asymmetrical shape that works visually and is simultaneously perfectly balanced, so that it revolves around its own axis if you as much as look at it. It is this quiet movement that makes the mobile mindful. It reacts to its surroundings, like to its audience.

From text by Peter Michael Hornung
Translated by Lotte Follin

Full text in English / Danish (pdf)

Geertsen – In Triple Time, memorial exhibition 2009

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Installation views | Mobiles | Paintings

Installation views

Enter Art Fair 2019

Art Copenhagen - The Nordic Art Fair 2007

Mobiles

Rund drejeskulptur (Round Mobile), 1986, Iron and Aluminium, 60 cm diameter

Rund Gul (Round Yellow), 1990, Iron and Aluminium, H 70 cm, 200 cm diameter

Gul Gul (Yellow Yellow), 2003, Iron and Aluminium, H 55 cm, 70 cm diameter

Komposition IV (Composition IV), 1998, Iron and aluminium, H 70 cm, 120 cm Ø

Tegning i luft (Drawing in Air), 1975, Iron and aluminium , H 35 cm, 40 cm Ø

Tegning i luft (Drawing in Air) (1), 1987, Iron and aluminium , H 30 cm, 50 cm Ø

Paintings

Komposition, bevægelse. August-september (Composition, Movement. August-September), 1951, Oil on canvas , 130 x 150 cm

Untitled, 1950, Oil on canvas , 55 x 75 cm

To røde figurer (Two Red Elements), 1949, Oil on board , 60 x 90 cm

Komposition blå hvid (Composition Blue White), 1955, Oil on canvas , 100 x 80 cm

Horisontal - Vertikal, Oil on masonite, 85 x 105 cm

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