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Malene Müllertz belongs to the absolute
top of Danish and international ceramics. Together with other
icons like Bodil Manz, Jane Reumert, Bente Hansen and Beate
Andersen, she is part of the legendary exhibition group Ceramic
Ways. At Puls Müllertz will be showing around 20 net-like
cylinders, networks if you want, up to 50 centimetres high,
like three-dimensional patterns in the air. Müllertz was largely
inspired by Andalucia and the masterful woven baskets in straw.
In Müllertz vessels there is always a correspondence between
the exterior and the interior. It seems like she aims to make
the form appear as if it were stretched out to make room for
an inner core that needs to get out: Her walls are broken
through, into basket-like, woven structures. Her choice of
form is dictated by impulses from constructions and patterns
in nature and culture, in other crafts and materials. Sometimes
the net-like structure is cut out of the clay, other times
the net is constructed by means of a coil technique.
For her newest works, Müllertz uses a wide
range of colours: going from red, yellow and blue to more
earthlike hues like white, black and brown. Müllertz networks
belong to the most outstanding ceramics she has produced in
years.
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