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“Pottery is at once the simplest and the most difficult of all arts. It is the simplest because it is the most elemental; it is the most difficult because it is the most abstract. Historically it is among the first of the arts. […]
Pottery is pure art; it is art freed from any imitative intention. […] pottery is plastic art in its most abstract essence.”
Herbert Read, The Meaning of Art
It is a surprising first exhibition where Ilie Rusu and Constantin Rusu – father and son, meet on. This is a preamble to a larger project initiated by the ceramic artist with origins in Cluj. He invites fellow artists who mainly express themselves in other mediums, provides them with ceramic material, and opens a door to daring and extravagant artistic experiments. It is a path of intellectual rigor and tactile enjoyment that examines to what extent new tasks can become truly solvable. Seriousness and playfulness, rigor and casualness interfere, the anchoring in the context of a tradition is no longer predefined, and the center of gravity shifts from one pole to the other. The first guest, Constantin Rusu, approaches painting and graphics in an original way, a complex puzzle difficult to decipher. The surfaces are covered with graphic signs and vector arrows that find new expressive ways in ceramics – it’s a contemporary azulejos. Dynamics, the impetuosity of the movement, the reception of visual forces, the bookish and the conceptual intertwine and manifest in a visual edifice compressed inward or exploding outward, increasing or decreasing.
Adela Bonaț
“I removed an iron bolt from the door, and with increasing weariness, I used it to make a small opening in the wall: a blue light appeared. I worked with a kind of frenzy and soon I made a hole large enough to crawl through. My first reaction was not disappointment at finding no food, or relief at recognizing a water pump and a generator, but ecstatic, prolonged amazement: the walls, the ceiling, the floor were of blue tile and even the air itself (in that room where the only contact with the outside world was a high skylight obscured by the branches of a tree) had the deep azure transparency of a waterfall's foam.”
Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel
The exhibition can be visited between February 1st, 2023 and March 2nd, 2023.
Artistic curator: Adela Bonat
Coordinator: Marius Stanciu
Pottery is pure art; it is art freed from any imitative intention. […] pottery is plastic art in its most abstract essence.”
Herbert Read, The Meaning of Art
It is a surprising first exhibition where Ilie Rusu and Constantin Rusu – father and son, meet on. This is a preamble to a larger project initiated by the ceramic artist with origins in Cluj. He invites fellow artists who mainly express themselves in other mediums, provides them with ceramic material, and opens a door to daring and extravagant artistic experiments. It is a path of intellectual rigor and tactile enjoyment that examines to what extent new tasks can become truly solvable. Seriousness and playfulness, rigor and casualness interfere, the anchoring in the context of a tradition is no longer predefined, and the center of gravity shifts from one pole to the other. The first guest, Constantin Rusu, approaches painting and graphics in an original way, a complex puzzle difficult to decipher. The surfaces are covered with graphic signs and vector arrows that find new expressive ways in ceramics – it’s a contemporary azulejos. Dynamics, the impetuosity of the movement, the reception of visual forces, the bookish and the conceptual intertwine and manifest in a visual edifice compressed inward or exploding outward, increasing or decreasing.
Adela Bonaț
“I removed an iron bolt from the door, and with increasing weariness, I used it to make a small opening in the wall: a blue light appeared. I worked with a kind of frenzy and soon I made a hole large enough to crawl through. My first reaction was not disappointment at finding no food, or relief at recognizing a water pump and a generator, but ecstatic, prolonged amazement: the walls, the ceiling, the floor were of blue tile and even the air itself (in that room where the only contact with the outside world was a high skylight obscured by the branches of a tree) had the deep azure transparency of a waterfall's foam.”
Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel
The exhibition can be visited between February 1st, 2023 and March 2nd, 2023.
Artistic curator: Adela Bonat
Coordinator: Marius Stanciu
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