Ton GEERS

(Netherlands)

 

Create kites became an essential leisure, vital for Ton.

His work of artistic director in an advertising agency daily leads him to begin in processes of creation applied, in other words asks him to be with the service of the message which the customer wishes to develop. Ton looked for a personal creation which cannot be associated with other forms of art already existing. The meeting with the kite was randomly made purchase for his son, Ton adopted it at once.

His first achievements were reproductions of Japanese models, but quickly he created new forms inspired of the animals or vegetable kingdom. Kites which sometimes have difficulties in flying.

That does not worry him, admittedly it would be enough for him to change fastening but the interest of Ton is elsewhere : create new forms.

"The forms are always based on the idea that the object must be a kite, but sometimes I do not know if it will fly, the reason is simple, I am absolutely not interested by the technical part of the flight, it is the process of creation which attracts me."

Ton uses indifferently fabric of spi or paper for the aerofoils of the kite, but today, through his various trip (Thailand, Korea) his affinity with paper and the bamboo affirms itself and it's in this direction that his work is directed.

Biography : After studies of design and a specialization in publicity, Ton becomes artistic director, his work thus for different agency of communication and publicity. In 1987, he settles in the countryside and leaves the centre town of Utrecht, it is there that he discovers the kite.

He became one accustomed of the great meetings of kite in Europe.