“Collages”: Exhibition on a North Frisian Island

Exhibitions / Theatre

Surreal dreamworlds by Kirti Peter Michel at Park an der Mühle in Wyk auf Föhr, Northern Germany, until 10 October daily from 2-5pm

Keerti with collage

Kirti P. Michel has been working with collages since 1982. Over the years he has collected baskets-full of material, carefully cut out with nail scissors, from magazines, art magazines, postcards and advertising brochures.

He then picks out the pieces which coordinate in colour, allowing these colour connections to grow together into flowing linear forms, creating little stories; sometimes a wild cat appears, a lotus blossom, a Buddhist monk, or a George Harrison, then perhaps Nefertiti, an exotic bird, Albrecht Dürer or a Maasai.

The compositions represent the artist’s world of thoughts and feelings, his inner landscape of the soul. Subconscious moods, longings, desires, ideals, but also controversial feelings emerge. Sometimes a piece take several weeks for the theme to develop and until all the pictorial elements have come together with meaning and significance.

Kirti P. Michel’s aspiration is to distract us from our everyday life and draw our attention to the magic of the invisible, to reveal the space between objects, play with proximity and distance, change perspective, and give new meaning to forms.

From an article by Andreas Hansen, published in Nachrichten, Wyk, on 24 September 2024 – wirinsulaner.de

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