![]() ![]() “Getsiv's striking images are worthy of a collection all their own." - ADD, Comic Book Galaxy SHAPES (p040-045) - Published in Abstract The Anthology (Fantagraphics, Eisner nomination for Best Anthology, 2009). TRESCAPE (p036) - Featured in the 2008 Comics and Illustration show at Portland’s at City Hall. Also in the permanent collection of Giuseppe Garrera, art collector and historian in Rome.īLOBLOG (p033-035) - Published in Daydream Visual Journal #1 (Independent Publishing Resource Center, 2008) and displayed in the office of Commissioner Sam Adams at Portland City Hall 2008. ![]() ![]() Metzler, 2015)įRAMEGUAGE (p031) Featured in the art show Mostrapoesia at UrbsArt, Hungarian Academy in Rome, Italy, 2018 and later in Scrivere Liberi at MU.SP.A.C., L’Aquila, 2019. HYDICAL (p028) - Printed in the textbook Comics Und Graphic Eine Einführung (Published by J.B. This really proves, to me at least, that there are real possibilities for "abstract" comics out there, possibilities that have been only very little explored so far.” - Andrei Molotiu) It's also interesting how this one works almost exclusively as a sequence, while your previous one was more ambiguous between sequence and single image. It's funny how comic (as in humor) pacing can work even without any kind of clear representation. (From June 12, 2004: “Mike-your new comic made me laugh. POOB (p025) - Posted on The Comics Journal Messageboard during the earliest discussion of abstract comics. Ten years later, a page of it was published in An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting (Uitgeverij 2013) WHATISTHAT (p006-023) - One of the earliest known combinations of abstract comic and asemic writing. It’s not there anymore.) Colored and posted on The Comics Journal Messageboard in 2004 during the very first discussion of the genre. Some of the achievements of individual pieces in thisĭEMOGRAPHIC (p003) - One of the earliest known abstract comics, drawn in 2001 at The Ione Cafe at Portland State University (Don’t look for it. ![]() Pieces in this collection have been published and featured in art shows internationally. Small sculptures I sometimes cast in bronze.Originally titled and otherwise known as “~”, Absemic featues pieces produced from 2001-2010, collecting all of Mike Getsiv’s abstract comics, some of the very first ever made, plus his asemic writing. My large sculptures are constructed over steel armature from beaten and brazed copper sheets, with the joints in the metal accentuated to contradict the realism of the figure. To this end I like, for instance, to upset a near-traditional concept of a figure by a sudden gigantic arm, or to disturb a quiet harmony by an unexpected splash of Fauve colour. I want my figures to look real in an unrealistic way distorted but ‘possible’, capable of life, and as such, reflecting real life in their ‘un-realness’, their ambiguity, contradiction, even absurdity. However, they remain firmly based in reality because, although I am well aware of the expressive potential of the underlying abstract forms, I need the emotive content of associations and mystery provided by the human image. In my work I use simplification, exaggeration and distortion in order to enhance the expressive quality of my figures. " The human figure fascinates me both as a source of complex shapes and forms and as a subject of great evocative power. ![]()
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