Phenomena of form and colour

It is not absolutely necessary to explain Michael Post’s plastic art. But recognizing the philosophical and artistic foundation on which his creative world is based opens the door for the reader to the expanded perception of an aesthetic process in its creative richness, including the presence of humor.   more …

Dear Carola,

Your video inspires me. Coming from the self chosen solitude of the vast landscape of the Corbières of France, I watch your performance. Contemplatively attuned, I experience the two voices, gestures and actions of the identical singers as a magical event with a strangely poetic intensity. The garden as a stage set enriches the enraptured atmosphere of the congenially transformed poem. Symbolizing the strange change, the scene of the event is transformed into an ideal place for your metamorphic art.    more …

For six years we have been working on the project embodying color. Most of the colleagues involved in this exhibition series have been with us since 2013. Some have shifted the focus of their artistic work or signaled that they could no longer participate, while a number of exhibitors from Germany and abroad have joined. At that time, the Cultural Office of the City of Wiesbaden had invited Heiner Thiel and me to realize an exhibition in the Kunsthalle of the city. The plan was merely to present our own work. However, the idea arose in us to suggest to the head of the department of culture that we invite other artists to the exhibition whose works are determined by the dialogue between form and color. The city agreed to this idea and so the exhibition series embodying color began.     more …

The exhibition embodying color features three-dimensional, colorful works, but they arise from very different traditions. While sculptural works with colored settings can be found in antiquity and quite constantly since, painting that opens up space is a more recent phenomenon.
The problem of color in sculpture is a very old one – just think of the famous portrait bust of the Egyptian pharaoh’s wife Nefertiti (14th century BC). Even if there are colored objects in the substance by colored plastics and corresponding casting processes in the meantime, it is generally true that the color of the form was applied.   more …

Clearly configured constructions in painted wood, primarily as reliefs or wall objects, define the spectrum of Michael Post’s art over the past ten years. During this period the artist has created a diverse range of objects, all of which, despite their different outward appearances, consist of the same basic “module”: two wedge-shaped wooden elements formed and painted in perfect conformity with the artist’s design – Michael Post describes them as “elongated tetrahedrons”. more …

Speaking with Michael Post about the series of coloured wall works he created over the past few years, he mentions the so-called Platonic bodies. In his work, Timaios, the Greek philosopher Plato developed the notion that ideal geometric figures had played a role in the creation of the world by God.1 Tetrahedra, octahedra, icosahedra and cubes allocated to the elements fire, air, water and earth had, according to Plato, formed the structural components of a harmonically conformed cosmos ordered in its core. These components, in turn, were themselves to have been composed of corresponding triangular bodies. Plato’s model of creation is based on a logic of elementary forms comprehensible to reason which, at the same time, guaranteed the world’s greatest conceivable beauty. more …