EXPO ‘IRREVERSIBLE’ – Popeye loves Olive gallery, Athens (GR) – 2-16 Dec. 2016
Raluca Buzura Solo Exhibition
IRREVERSIBLE
*impossible to return to a previous condition
« IRREVERSIBLE
*impossible to return to a previous condition
Each human being lives for himself and takes his own actions, but as soon as he does it, this action, committed at a certain moment in time becomes irreversible and makes itself a part of the history. Therefore, my whole work defines the irreversibility of the actions I chose to take and of the material itself: once acquired a certain shape, at the end of the process, it cannot go backward, it becomes permanent. »
“Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible” -Joy Williams
Raluca Buzura neckpiece - porcelain, transparent glaze, colloidal gold
cover of « New Necklaces » Book by Nicolas Estrada with Raluca Buzura necklace
Raluca Buzura neckpiece - porcelain, transparent glaze, colloidal gold
Raluca Buzura neckpiece – porcelain, transparent glaze, colloidal gold, leather ribbon, gold plated silver locks
Raluca Buzura neckpiece
Raluca Buzura brooch
Raluca Buzura neckpiece – porcelain, transparent glaze, colloidal gold, artificial leather, gold plated silver locks
Raluca Buzura brooch - porcelain, transparent glaze, colloidal gold, artificial leather, metal lock
Raluca Buzura bracelet
Raluca Buzura brooch - porcelain, transparent glaze, colloidal gold, metal lock
About the artist:
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I attended the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, department ceramic-glass-metal, and then, from 2007,
I followed master in the same section.
During the studies, my works were in the installation area, participating in various projects and exhibitions. Since 2009, main focus becomes contemporary jewelry design.
My interest in jewelry may also come from the fact that this area has not been given much attention. Frequently, people use to see it only as an over plus brought to the human body, that has a value depending on the material used. Therefore, it was also a challenge to change viewer’s angle and to reveal an alternative, and more precisely that jewelry can be considered a work of art in its own right, having an artistic understanding, concept and message that can cover a wide range of fields. I continued to work by maintaining a preference for ceramic materials, due to the transformation of the material from one state to another: once acquired a certain shape, it can’t return to what it was before.
I like to combine seemingly fragile ceramic material with metal hardness or the warmth of a fabric, then to submit the form to compositional experiments that create the most expressive side of my creations. My work is a translation in porcelain of my personal experiences, trying to obliterate these traces during the process by simplifying the boundaries between real and abstract, in a swirl of colors and lines waterfalls from which are foreseen flashes of gold. The result of these experiences I like to think that is a legacy, a proof of my existence that reflects on the society, making it if not better, at least more beautiful and trying to rekindle the gap between public and art, by presenting a variety of aesthetic shapes and ideas that could remove it from the serial area.
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