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Galateea Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to invite you to the terracotta sculpture exhibitionScenes from a Woman's Life, created by the artist Elena Lot Vlad (1956-2021).
The exhibition can be visited from March 6th to 31st, 2024.

But who was Elena Lot Vlad?

In a series of works of substance, coherence, vigour and full of tension, Elena Lot Vlad makes the earth rustle with life. What we see here in a forest of sculptures, in an island of different things, is something that touches both the pictorial side - with a finger dipped in clay- and the sculptural side. Sculpture, colour and the human body on Corinthian capitals. Observation and naturalism. We see an artist healed through poetry who appeals to the cultural functions of clay, that specific and universal clay.

Her characters perhaps resemble Brigit, the Celtic, pagan goddess and then Christian saint, who was associated with healing and crafts. Patroness of poets and healers, mother, protector, Brigid remained bound to the land for which she was responsible.
"For you I wanted to be the most beautiful", "For you I put on a new dress" she made the clay say to her beloved husband in the frankness of her confession. We all know that we are made to live and die. Yet since she disappeared, he has been mourning her; he, the husband with whom she was synchronous in a vast beach of readable or subtle knots and connections. Aurel Vlad, her broken-hearted husband - here - brings before our eyes, much like a huge wave, the works of Elena Lot Vlad.
What I would say about her life and death is that neither resembled those of the people around us.
Elena Lot Vlad chose a path that she walked alone, always alone, even if, thanks to her charisma, people always surrounded her with love.
The bearer of this pseudonym, Lot, the friend of all her former colleagues, died at the age of 65.

A short life, but...even an hour can be more important than a week, can't it?

Curator: Cristina Bolborea

A IMAGE GALLERY OF EXHIBITED ARTWORKS

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