Michael Rytz

From the introduction:00"People close to the Danish artist Michael Rytz know him as dedicated and very productive. But much of his time is spent making works that were never intended for the public eye. Since 2009 Rytz has devoted himself to the creation and elaboration of a series of private books incorporating many hundreds of intricately decorated and painted pages. To call them sketchbooks would be insufficient - in form they are more like the illuminated manuscripts of the medieval era. In content they are a richly bejewelled cavalcade of comic figures, scenes and profane geometries.00I heard about the mystical sketchbooks many years before I got a chance to see them with my own eyes. when I did I couldn?t believe what I had stumbled upon. A universe all of its own, so crazy, so detailed and personal. After that day I couldn?t stop thinking about Rytz? books and I knew I was lucky to be amongst the few who had actually seen them close hand."