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Galateea Contemporary Art presents Ephemeral¸a new exhibition by ceramist Vasile Cercel.
The opening will take place on Monday, September 9, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. at the gallery location at 132 Calea Victoriei, Bucharest.
Professor Dr. Ion Bogdan Lefter will give the opening remarks.
Curator: George Dragomir Turia
After over 20 years since his last personal show in Romania, ceramist and sculptor Vasile Cercel returns to Galateea Contemporary Art with Ephemeral, an exhibition-event that may be seen as the culmination of his lifelong investigation into the relationship between the material and the immaterial, between energy and aesthetic form. While his approach is profoundly intellectual, Vasile Cercel's works are anti-rhetorical and anti-discursive: instead of offering fix meanings, the artist has porcelain, stone, wood and metal enter productive dialogues about possibility and the nature of form, about temporality and spatiality – essentially, about the creative and yet elusive force of the energy that is life itself.
George Dragomir Turia
"You can only see clearly with your heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye," says Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince. I was concerned with such a capacity for aesthetic resonance ever since my early experiments with the luminous energy that penetrates the porcelain sheets to generate the effect that can be best described as floating, diaphanous vibration, evanescence (Mihai Drișcu). This concern was the start of my in-depth investigation into the relationship between form and the subtle energies that shape and sustain it. The novelty of the works that make up Ephemeral lies in how I combine porcelain with metal structures of different densities in order to capture the interpenetration between form and the invisible energies that support and personalize it, bringing it to life. I have used the vertical axial construction and anthropomorphic suggestion employed in my previous work. The simplicity of the black and white in the Egregors cycle accentuates the detachment from the immediate world. Nature is in constant motion. EVERYTHING FLOWS. The ephemeral is the continuous manifestation of the present, of the passing moment. Inner Echo is an installation that probes the inner world, the expanded universe that is the life animating the physical force. Made of metal and kaolin, the installation suggests continuous transformation as well as the possibility of inner purification through self-knowledge and detachment from the world of unstable forms. My latest works are an attempt to communicate this focused attention on the present moment and on the relationship between materiality and consciousness.
Vasile Cercel
Vasile Cercel was born in Bacău, Romania. He graduated from the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Faculty of Decorative Arts and Design with a specialization in ceramics. Cercel has shown his work both nationally and abroad, in individual and group exhibitions. His works are found in numerous public and private collections in Romania and across the world. He was vicepresident of the Union of Visual Artists of Romania (UAP) and president of its Decorative Arts Department. In 1988, he received UAP’s Prize for Decorative Arts. In 2004, the Romanian President awarded Cercel the Order of Cultural Merit in the rank of Commander for excellence in the field of fine arts.
The opening will take place on Monday, September 9, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. at the gallery location at 132 Calea Victoriei, Bucharest.
Professor Dr. Ion Bogdan Lefter will give the opening remarks.
Curator: George Dragomir Turia
After over 20 years since his last personal show in Romania, ceramist and sculptor Vasile Cercel returns to Galateea Contemporary Art with Ephemeral, an exhibition-event that may be seen as the culmination of his lifelong investigation into the relationship between the material and the immaterial, between energy and aesthetic form. While his approach is profoundly intellectual, Vasile Cercel's works are anti-rhetorical and anti-discursive: instead of offering fix meanings, the artist has porcelain, stone, wood and metal enter productive dialogues about possibility and the nature of form, about temporality and spatiality – essentially, about the creative and yet elusive force of the energy that is life itself.
George Dragomir Turia
"You can only see clearly with your heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye," says Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince. I was concerned with such a capacity for aesthetic resonance ever since my early experiments with the luminous energy that penetrates the porcelain sheets to generate the effect that can be best described as floating, diaphanous vibration, evanescence (Mihai Drișcu). This concern was the start of my in-depth investigation into the relationship between form and the subtle energies that shape and sustain it. The novelty of the works that make up Ephemeral lies in how I combine porcelain with metal structures of different densities in order to capture the interpenetration between form and the invisible energies that support and personalize it, bringing it to life. I have used the vertical axial construction and anthropomorphic suggestion employed in my previous work. The simplicity of the black and white in the Egregors cycle accentuates the detachment from the immediate world. Nature is in constant motion. EVERYTHING FLOWS. The ephemeral is the continuous manifestation of the present, of the passing moment. Inner Echo is an installation that probes the inner world, the expanded universe that is the life animating the physical force. Made of metal and kaolin, the installation suggests continuous transformation as well as the possibility of inner purification through self-knowledge and detachment from the world of unstable forms. My latest works are an attempt to communicate this focused attention on the present moment and on the relationship between materiality and consciousness.
Vasile Cercel
Vasile Cercel was born in Bacău, Romania. He graduated from the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Faculty of Decorative Arts and Design with a specialization in ceramics. Cercel has shown his work both nationally and abroad, in individual and group exhibitions. His works are found in numerous public and private collections in Romania and across the world. He was vicepresident of the Union of Visual Artists of Romania (UAP) and president of its Decorative Arts Department. In 1988, he received UAP’s Prize for Decorative Arts. In 2004, the Romanian President awarded Cercel the Order of Cultural Merit in the rank of Commander for excellence in the field of fine arts.
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