Aneta Regel Deleu exhibition / Puls Contemporary Ceramics, Brussels
September 8 – October 6, 2012
Prize winning Polish-born artist Aneta Regel Deleu is a rapidly rising star on the European ceramic art horizon. She is an honors graduate of the Gdansk, Poland Fine Art Academy and London’s University of Westminster and Royal College of Art. This is her first exhibition at Puls Contemporary Ceramics Gallery.
“The main focus of my ceramic forms is the exploration of materials and their combinations. I am particularly interested combining the rough natural qualities of materials such as rock with malleable materials such as clay. The resulting juxtaposition of the natural and human-made creates a dramatic friction and tension. This reinforces the transformation and sense of movement that objects undergo during the passage from one state to another throughout the making process.”
Aneta Regel’s work seeks no functional path other than that of the communicative and expository power of art itself. Like certain of her mid-20th century pioneering artistic antecedents, she utterly rejects the label of potter. Simply because her medium is clay, fire and occasionally glaze, that does not make it craft. The designation of ceramist or ceramic artist—or better yet, ceramic sculptor—is both more expansive and accurate.
The human figure is not her vehicle of expression. Rather it is the trees, rocks, fields, and river-beds first encountered in her native northern Poland and later in her travels. Her formal language is abstract, creating a sort of equivalent to the natural world rather than attempting to describe it. Hers is a landscape, or more precisely, aspects of a landscape that create images through which she seeks to convey her vision of a reality we may already have encountered or indeed might yet encounter.
Regel is a romantic seeking to capture the forms, energies and rhythms of the forests and natural phenomena that have surrounded her. She has repeatedly been confronted by native rock, split and ground into powder by the power of glacial ice. Her work is the emotional response, her sense of awe in the face of what nature has evoked in her. Her work recaptures the power of stone; stone powdered into clay by ice but fused back into stone in the fires she has set.
Puls Contemporary Ceramics is the only gallery in Brussels exclusively dedicated to ceramics. The gallery stages around eight exhibitions annually, showing the best of international contemporary ceramics, with a special focus on denmark. The gallery is divided into two spaces, whereby the main space will typically show works of established artists. The second space is where young, promising talents are given a platform, people who will put their stamp on the next generation of ceramics. In both spaces, Puls Contemporary Ceramics is committed to pressing its finger firmly against the thumping pulse of the 21st century.
Gallery hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 13.00 – 18.00.
CONTACT
Annette Sloth
mail@pulsceramics.com
Tel: +32 494 83 60 55
Puls Contemporary Ceramics
Edelknaapstraat 19 rue du Page (Châtelain)
B-1050 Brussels
Belgium
www.pulsceramics.com
Above: Aneta Regel Deleu, Metamorphosis, 2011, Ceramic, feldspar, engobes, 23 x 23 x 28 cm.
