MARTIN BODILSEN KALDAHL

MARTIN BODILSEN KALDAHL Probing the Floor, Sniffing the Air is a monograph published on the occasion of the artist’s major retrospective "Cuts, Stripes and Knots – A Ceramic Retrospective" at the CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art, Middelfart, Denmark.

About the Exhibition

Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl (Danish, b. 1954) is a ceramic artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has worked with a myriad of spatial themes and ornaments that frequently reoccur in his formal vocabulary and which emerge through a methodical, gradual, and experimental serial process. Notably, the knot as a shape has been a leitmotif offering possibilities for various sinuous, rhythmic cadences and abstract narratives. The hand-built architectonic works appear as “spatial drawings”—solid, twisting and turning through space. Kaldahl’s interest also lies in the potential of the object to make a direct emotional impact on the viewer. The motif is always clear in its simplicity and easily decoded while remaining open to interpretations. Kaldahl first trained as a potter in the 1970s. In 1990, he graduated from the master’s program at the Royal College of Art in London. Kaldahl’s works are represented in several public and private collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Danish Museum of Art & Design, the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, and the Musée des Arts Decoratifs. 
 

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