AIR WITH PAPER SHREDS, 2005 // THE IMPOSSIBLE LINE, 2014 // MAGNETIC FIELD METER, 2016

The work Air with Paper Shreds can be understood as a form study on movement in air. These studies were instrumental in the development of the sculptural installation works Frederic Geurts creates, often in situ and in relation to their destined surroundings. As such, Geurts inscribes himself in the tradition of site-specific art, drawing the surrounding context into the artwork. The separation between the work of art and its surroundings becomes more diffused. As a visitor, you are positioned in the artwork, facilitating a more complete and direct encounter and experience. The surroundings or context can imply the architectural space, as well as the meaning or connotation of a space, but also the reality of gravity we are subject to. The shapes from Air with Paper Shreds return in works such as Proposal for an art intervention, 2007, in Netwerk Aalst and the temporary intervention in the park of the castle of Gaasbeek: In Between, 2013.

Parallel to his larger installations, Geurts developed instruments that respond to changes in the atmosphere, usually invisible to the naked eye. Instruments such as The Impossible Line and the Magnetic Field Meter position the exhibition space and the visitor in a larger context: our place on the planet and the cosmic laws.

Frederic Geurts (B)
°1965, Wilrijk

Frederic Geurts lives and works in Antwerp. He has been building his oeuvre since 1988, the core of which lies in the works’ dialogue with its context. He is mostly known for his monumental yet fragile structures which play into the surrounding environments. Frederic Geurts studied product development in Genk. Between 2005 and 2013 he was a lecturer at the MADfaculty in Hasselt, where he co-developed the research field of art and public space, a cross-over between architecture and art.  He is represented by Sofie Van De Velde Gallery.