Height: 19 cm
IBASHO has invited the Belgian ceramist Geert Van der Borght to exhibit his art works during the exhibition 'Visual Poetry from Ishikawa' since his work shares a wabi-sabi sensibility with Horie's and Izu's art. Van der Borght has been working in the field of ceramics for over 40 years.
His sculptural work consists mainly of forms (initially turned) on which multiple facets and surfaces (planes) unite around an empty center. He seeks to express in this way the different aspects of our personality that are often fragmented and that risk dispersing without the centripetal force that brings us back to our center. In his more functional work, tea bowls and other containers, he uses ash glazes, Shino and rock glazes on top of each other. This gives them greater depth in terms of tone and texture.
This accumulation of layers seems to him to parallel what happens in life, in which most of our experiences connect multiple dimensions and which are never alone. Rather, it is a complex network of grade crossings and connections. In this way, each piece is a moment, captured in time and space, marked with the seal of uniqueness, of a unique and irreplaceable expression in the material in which different realities are manifested.
