Partners: Workspace studio

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The Galateea Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to invite the public to visit the exhibition Multiple Facets between July 5 and August 5, 2024. The opening will take place Friday, July 5, 2024 at 6 pm at our location on Calea Victoriei 132, Bucharest. Everyone is welcome!

Heide Nonnenmacher and Heidi Degenhardt, two visual artists based in Germany, obsessed by Nature and by porcelain, surnamed ‘white gold’, exhibit a very small part of their creation at the Galateea Gallery. Fruits, seeds, flowers, creatures living underwater, all of them in perpetual movement and transformation like the whole Universe, urge us to protect the medium we live in. The chromatic range limited to WHITE identifies with the fine, fragile and translucent porcelain ‒ yet strong as far as expression and concision are concerned ‒ and with the radiolaria, corals and sponges, qua source of inspiration for both artists.
Three accents of colour ‒ RED (Red Porifera), ORANGE (Coloured dots) and BLACK (Coral Reef) ‒ arouse questions. Are we aware of the fact that, due to the thermal stress caused by the increasing ocean temperature (the emission of greenhouse gases), the corals turn white, and, due to polluted waters, they become black?
It’s Heide who shows it via (white and black) symbols! Life may fade away, and the Radiolaria, these sublime marine animals wrapped in siliceous shell with thin extensions, could disappear.
Heidi also resorts to symbols when she creates, out of porcelain, Red Porifera 1 and 2.
Porifera is a phylum, and the Sponges, the first and simplest animal species risen on Earth, belong to it. Even bath sponge is such an animal.
​RED / ORANGE, colours charged with meanings, is identified with the new life, with sunrise and heat.
These exceptional porcelain pieces suggest life and death, light and dark, joy and sorrow.
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Let’s first admire them and further reflect upon!

Currator: Cristina Popescu Russu

​Partners: Workspace Studio, Inkad
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A IMAGE GALLERY OF EXHIBITED ARTWORKS

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