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Morten Løbner Espersen

The work of the Danish ceramicist Morten Løbner Espersen (b.1965) is governed by two seemingly antithetical aspects, which are, in fact, two sides of the same coin or like the interior and exterior of a vessel. Indeed, his oeuvre revolves around one of the great sets of polar opposites in Western philosophy and aesthetics, whose names differ depending on the context: idea and thing, essence and appearance, concept and matter, spirit and flesh, the intelligible and the sensuous. As an object on the borderline between interiority and exteriority and idealised form and …