CERAMIC RENDEZ-VOUS
December 12, 2011 - January 16, 2012
An inaugural exhibition of the first art gallery in Romania
dedicated to promoting contemporary ceramics
dedicated to promoting contemporary ceramics
Exhibitors: Arina Ailincăi, Bianca Boeroiu,
Cristina Bolborea, Adela Bonaţ, Vasile Cercel, Gherghina Costea, Georgiana Cozma, Marta Jakobovits, Romana Mateiaş, Aniela Ovadiuc, Monika Pădureţ, Cristina Popescu Russu, Ioana Şetran, Simona Tănăsescu. |
THE TRIUMPH OF GALATEEA
At the turn of the year 2011, a gifted and eccentric ceramist is permitted to approach British Museum’s world patrimony. Gigantic posters, bearing a yellow porcelain urn collated with magic talismans, are sprinkled on the banks of the Thames. After almost one decade since the receipt of the Turner Prize granted by British visual arts, the terrible travestied punkist Grayson Perry, through his ceramic vessels and gravity of the funeral theme, can pay homage to the perenniality and anthropologic value of decorative arts. “The Tomb of the Unknown Artisan” is a solo exhibition intarsied with pieces of universal patrimony, which dispels the complex of the fire arts, once considered a minor genre. Just like the Polish “abacan” which, in the 70s, could render excellently the dramatism of the Iron Courtain through the huge felt silhouettes. At the same turn of the year, but on a different scale, we feel like that a new Bucharest gallery with international project warms up from inside the kiln of Romanian ceramics. After two decades of frost, we haven’t yet overcome the winter of the Fine Artists’ Union and of the extinction, in our country, of the china-and-glass industry. A fire signal proved to be the panorama of Romanian ceramics (33 artists of 25‒75 years old), housed, from autumn 2009 to spring 2010, in the Palace at Mogoşoaia. Half of the approx. 100 pieces crossed south the Carpathians, coming from Cluj. The initiative and the remarkable organizing effort were due first to Cristina Popescu Russu, an artist enjoying a notable international experience and, consequently, interested in keeping up Romanian creators’ group consciousness. The excellent achievement of the trilingual catalog was followed, in September 2010, by the exhibition of the Romanian ceramics in Paris. In Romania, ceramist’s career has become a personal adventure, the material requirements depending on the fire law. Governmental commands, acquisitions from studios and energetic expenses had been ‒ I’m quite sorry, even upset to state it ‒ much more .... Aurelia Mocanu, critic (download full article) Art critic: Aurelia Mocanu; Curator: Cristina Popescu Russu
Project Coordinators: Gherghina Costea, Georgiana Cozma, Romana Mateiaş, Aniela Ovadiuc, Adela Bonaţ Project Manager: Cristina Popescu Russu |
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