Theo Michael Archives

Friday, 30 April 2021

Views from The Last Tenant @ MASA galeria curated by Mario Garcia Torres

Ana Pellicer

EWE, Marie Lund

Adeline De Monseignat

Geles Cabrera

Theo Michael, Josef Strau

Brian Thoreen

Mosaics

Alepisaurus Ferox, 2016-2020, 175x125cm, cardboard epoxy grout paint

Allodesmus Gracilis, 2017-2020, 125x175cm, cardboard epoxy grout paint

CRISPR Symphonies, 2016-2020, 175x125 cm, cardboard epoxy grout paint

Microscope Smuggler, 2018-2020, 125x175cm, cardboard epoxy grout paint

The Pet (Erasmus Darwin Told Me So), 2018-2020, 125x175cm, cardboard epoxy grout paint

Myrmexx (Fables And Counter Fables), 2021, 125x175cm, cardboard, epoxy, grout, paint

some drawings...

Some Drawings:

Corinthos Bowling Alley, 2020, 70x50cm, graphite on paper

Carl Sagan Resurrection, 2019, 30x20cm, graphite and ink on paper

Cyclops Optimism, 2019, 30x20cm, graphite and ink on paper

Forever Eating Forever Thinking, 2019, 30x20cm, graphite and ink on paper

Ithaka Binary Star, 2019, 30x20cm, graphite and ink on paper

Teleported Sculptor, 2019, 30x20cm, graphite and ink on paper

The Nine Billion Names Of Art, 2019, 30x20cm, graphite and ink on paper

They Terraformed Earth 2, 2018, 70x49,5cm, graphite on paper

Tironosorus Lex, 2019, 25x17,5cm, graphite on paper

Tuesday, 23 July 2019

Notes On The White Plastic Chair

Aprdelesp asked me to write something about the white plastic chair, and so I did. It has been co written with Xavier Nuevo Guitart, Fabien Capello, Luciano Conchero and Benny Schaffer.

read it here: http://aprdelesp.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Notes-on-the-White-Plastic-Chair-v.-1.0.0.pdf

or see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0HQL00y0bo

...show with no name and no press release in a space without a name, Athens, June 2019

floor installation

table installation

show view

table installation

Give Me Less, 2019, 15x15x20cm, polymer clay and resin

2 Trillion Years, 2019, 14x20x30cm, polymer clay and resin

All Together, 2017, 10x15x25cm, polymer clay and resin

Eelius, 2017, 12x16x28cm, polymer clay and resin

Yeo Foros, 2017, 20x14x29cm, polymer clay and resin

Protogonos Salax, 2018, 25x18cm, graphite and ink on paper

Tironosorus Lex, 2019, 25x18cm, graphite and ink on paper

Early Mammals, 2018, 25x18cm, graphite and ink on paper

Conscious Walnut, 2018, 25x18cm, graphite and ink on paper

floor installation detail

Sunday, 26 May 2019

Crater Gardening, at Guadalajara 90210, Guadalajara, Mexico

Thoughts about Crater Gardening:

Central to the open air show Crater Gardening are issues of climate change, pollution and preservation. A variety of materials were used, among them bamboo, stone, palm leaves and glass, with the protagonistic role given to polymer clay, resin and polyurethane foam. The latter materials are emblematic of the Anthropocene era and represent a truly human group of materials since stone exists outside earth and bamboo predates humans for at least 15 million years. Could it be that the North Pacific garbage patch is the most authentic human legacy? Could it be that pollution is our grandest monument?

A human can take cover under a palm leaf shadow, but so can a sculpture. The works Gibbous Mimas Cafe Society and Phobos-Deimos-Ken Ken are in most part protection devices against sun radiation and in lesser part primitive/futuristic sculptures that explore ideas of growths, tumors and the boundaries between organic and inorganic. The work Pollution Monolith is essentially an enormous housing structure for a rather small sculpture at its center. Has human longing for shelter and security intensified the power of the exact elements it is trying to keep at bay? Can humans put order in spaces ravaged from extreme climate conditions? Will humans learn to live with ruins? Do humans already live in post-apocalyptic times?

At dusk, after the sun’s rays are no longer harmful, the works are lit by self contained fluorescent tubes, so as to function as hubs or shelters that bring people together in order to ponder the aforementioned unsettling questions.