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Galateea Contemporary Art Gallery is launching a special event - the opening of “On the Vulnerability of the Surface”, a solo exhibition by the visual artist Christa Zeitlhofer, who lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
Wednesday, September 1st, 2021, at 19:00 hrs.
This is the first exhibition hosted by the Galateea Gallery in which hybrid ceramics in all its splendor can be admired. The exhibits are complex works, different and at the same time coherent, varying from object to series. Fascinated by nature, Christa Zeitlhofer successfully experiments with a mixture of clay and porcelain and other added materials such as basalt chippings, lava soil, expanded clay, glass fiber fabric, glass, metal wires or granite chippings but also fruit stones. We find an ancestral, colorful world and, why not, a different side of nature.
Curator: Christina Popescu Russu
Besides “eggs of life/ellipsoids” further shapes like “ellipsoid cubes”, “yellow cuboids” or “reliefs” are exhibited. These singular groups of works are exclusively held in a geometric use of forms, whose strictness and angularity is softened and existing corners and edges gently rounded. At the same time this use of forms does not lose any of its clarity and still has exactness as an important component. The focus of the artist Zeitlhofer lies on the texture of the surface, which is worked out in each piece of work, in each series of artworks. The artist, whose works also express her own and inner self, leaves the final “processing step” to the material and the heat of the kiln in order to reveal “the beauty in the imperfection”. The smooth and technical appearing surface is to be seen as a counter pole to the oozing organic inner.
A deep involvement with nature and its materials also finds expression.
Eva Daxl PhD – art critic
The exhibition can be visited from the 1st to the 30th of September
The program is available on www.galateeagallery.com
Facebook: Galateea Contemporary Art
Partner: Workspace Studio
Wednesday, September 1st, 2021, at 19:00 hrs.
This is the first exhibition hosted by the Galateea Gallery in which hybrid ceramics in all its splendor can be admired. The exhibits are complex works, different and at the same time coherent, varying from object to series. Fascinated by nature, Christa Zeitlhofer successfully experiments with a mixture of clay and porcelain and other added materials such as basalt chippings, lava soil, expanded clay, glass fiber fabric, glass, metal wires or granite chippings but also fruit stones. We find an ancestral, colorful world and, why not, a different side of nature.
Curator: Christina Popescu Russu
Besides “eggs of life/ellipsoids” further shapes like “ellipsoid cubes”, “yellow cuboids” or “reliefs” are exhibited. These singular groups of works are exclusively held in a geometric use of forms, whose strictness and angularity is softened and existing corners and edges gently rounded. At the same time this use of forms does not lose any of its clarity and still has exactness as an important component. The focus of the artist Zeitlhofer lies on the texture of the surface, which is worked out in each piece of work, in each series of artworks. The artist, whose works also express her own and inner self, leaves the final “processing step” to the material and the heat of the kiln in order to reveal “the beauty in the imperfection”. The smooth and technical appearing surface is to be seen as a counter pole to the oozing organic inner.
A deep involvement with nature and its materials also finds expression.
Eva Daxl PhD – art critic
The exhibition can be visited from the 1st to the 30th of September
The program is available on www.galateeagallery.com
Facebook: Galateea Contemporary Art
Partner: Workspace Studio
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