M.P.MICHAEL PLÖTZTHE ARTIST’S ESTATE
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PAINTINGS · WORKS ON PAPER · PHOTOGRAPHY

Michael
Plötz.

1954 — 2022

Between reality
and imagination.

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Landscape-format oil painting with a large cluster of folded red, orange and ochre forms. A dark profile-like silhouette appears near the top. Dark blue, red and pale bands cross the background.
The thoughts hang in the air1981
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THE WORK

Forms that remain
open to possibility.

Bodies become landscapes, lines open up spaces, faces emerge and recede. Michael Plötz brought the observation of the visible world together with his own sense of what might exist beyond it.

Tall oil painting in green and blue. A pale circular form hangs between two diagonal black lines above layered, wave-like bands. Pale crossed lines run along the lower section.
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Paintings

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Colour and imagined space.

Black line drawing of a complex fanciful figure with face-like details, pipes, curls and rounded forms.
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Works on paper

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The freedom of the line.

Horizontal black-and-white photograph looking through a dark covered passage with repeated beams and supports towards a bright opening and a small distant silhouetted figure.
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Photography

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Observation and experiment.

Dark blue and green oil painting with two ochre shapes flanking a narrow vertical blue passage, tall dark divisions above and fine root-like lines below.

THE ARTIST

A singular eye.
Many forms of expression.

Photography was the starting point. Painting, drawing and digital experiments extended that way of seeing. The estate reveals a varied body of work in which organic forms and constructed spaces repeatedly meet.

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ENCOUNTERS WITH THE WORK

Look a little closer.

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Geometric oil painting in grey, violet and brown, with an arched opening, stepped planes, rounded channels and strong black outlines.

A World Full of Plans

Paintings · 1983
Vertical oil painting with rounded red-brown forms around black openings and a small pale grey drop-like shape near the centre, tapering into a thin line.

Let it grow

Paintings · 2002
Grey drawing of a reclining figure enclosed by rounded, layered dark contours.

A body in a hollow

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IN CONVERSATION

Interested in the work?

For galleries, curatorial enquiries and anyone wishing to learn more about Michael Plötz.

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IMAGE · SOUND · WORD

Many ways into
a body of work.

Computer graphics, personal photographs and his own writing lead beyond the gallery. The archive opens another way into Michael Plötz’s work; his music gives it a different voice.

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A digital island and floating spheres above blue water.
An Island in the Indefinite · Computer graphic · editorial title