Birgitte Due Madsen

Birgitte Due Madsen’s work are characterized by a subtle, poetic color scheme, tactile textures and with a strict geometry. Her idea for Solid Voids was to create sculptural forms that are related and respond to each other. The geometrical forms, such as concave and convex and spheres and squared, becomes an ongoing study of positive, negative and hollow spaces. It’s rare to see plaster or gypsum used as an exhibition material because it is considered worthy only as a sketching medium before a work is made in marble or other solid materials. But in the ceramic artist’s deft hands it is a fluid expressive medium, moulded, shaped and cast, then polished to a velvety surface that begs to be touched.

Birgitte works on a piece for a very long time, always refining the material. She trusts her instincts and values. Everything has a history and is inscribed in historic contexts and classic disciplines that seems to offer so much more inspiration, matter and content than a fleeting trend. If one goes in to the basic principles of geometry the possibilities of form are endless.