Gert Germeraad

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Sweden (residence), Netherlands (citizenship) °1959
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Gert Germeraad is an independent Dutch studio artist living in Sweden, working with a main focus on portrait sculpture. Recently he added abstract drawings to his vocabulary after a 15 year period of neglect. The contrast between the figurative and abstract elements in his work is related to an underlaying emotional energy which is investigated and delineated in new text-based work.

 

Gert Germeraad had his formal education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam and took recently a course Artistic Research Processes at Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm.

 

 

Website: www.gertgermeraad,eu

Instagram: instagram.com/gertgermeraad

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  • About exchanging a portrait • (2016) author(s): Gert Germeraad published in: Research Catalogue
    This is a text concerning artistic processes. It has a starting point in a project where I am making a portrait of a colleague artist while he is making mine. During the making of this portrait and thereafter I question my ways of working in which I occasionally find myself confronted with artistic blocks. In a period of two and a half years I investigate and articulate my artistic process as it meanders and expends over the different attitudes and problems I encounter in my work. I give a critical analysis of my motives and working methods and try to extend the range of possible ways of working. This text can be read as an extension of my previous text "Rationality, Intuition and Emotion, exploring an artistic process" that is published in the Journal for Artistic Research, JAR 3.
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  • Rationality, Intuition and Emotion - Exploring an Artistic Process (2013) author(s): Gert Germeraad published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    This exploratory text communicates the relation between my figurative sculpture and abstract drawings in an attempt to find the deeper grounds in my artistic work. During this project writing has become a connecting element, both as a description of my artistic process and as an integrated part of my work. In this writing I have tried to be open to underlying motives and early in this project it became clear that memories of psychotic episodes that I experienced in my twenties would start to play a crucial part in the description of my process. The psychoses had a prodigious impact on the formation of the person I have become and still play an important role as an undercurrent of emotional energy in my daily life and in my art. However, since I don’t want my art to be perceived through the point of view that I was once a psychiatric patient, I hardly ever talk about it. In this exposition I explore how, if I want to explore deeper layers in my work, I can no longer avoid this part of my past.
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  • Self Portrait Battered (2017) author(s): Gert Germeraad published in: Research Catalogue
    A videoclip of me finalizing a sculpture in the series Ecce Homo, 2011.
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