Booth B27
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The Spaceless Gallery presents: Shapes & Surfaces at Ceramic Brussels.
The Spaceless Gallery celebrates the diversity of practices in the realm of ceramics with a group show featuring four artists. Curated with interplays between with aesthetic oppositions and proximities, the gallery offers a reflection on cultural exchanges born from aesthetic confrontation.
With a common denominator, mineral materials - clay, enamel, or plaster - the four showcased artists have taken paths that are sometimes antagonistic. Nonetheless, the Spaceless Gallery chose to bring them together to showcase the permeability and circulation of ideas, transcending their differing approaches.
Shapes & Surfaces: the history of ceramics has always oscillated between these two poles. When sculptors molded clay to bring forth a silhouette, painters bestowed their characteristic motifs on blue-and-white Chinese porcelain or European faience. This dichotomy is found in contemporary ceramics, presenting an infinite palette of nuances between these two poles.
Within Shapes & Surfaces’s presentation at Ceramic Brussels, approaches at times seem opposed yet resonate with one another. On one side, Ruan Hoffmann uses the banal shape of a plate as the surface for his textual and visual whimsies; on the other, Olga Sabko plays with the material's sensuality to conceive forms that defy the laws of gravity. And between these, Olivia Walker creates hybrid wall sculptures, and Lucian Moriyama merges classical art history with that of pop culture.
A metaphor for artistic creation, applicable to other mediums. Through encounters and confrontations, ideas and practices mutually fertilize one another.
