Adrian Silvan Ionescu

Lucretia Milea, a ceramist from Ploiesti, exposes to us a series of modules, ingeniously conceived for a multifunctionality so necessary to the modern life.

By using two shades white and ochre they are easily adjustable to any house from that one having classic style furniture to the simplest room in a hostel. Analyzing the structure of the tree trunks or the inside of various fruits or vegetables, the artist has come to an interesting playing with nature, transposing it in her interchangeable and movable volumes conceived as successive layers of hardened epidermis. Through longitudinal slits or crossing sections, one can see the inside, so expressive due to the graphic game of the pieces which enter one another. Their arrangement in a natural dialogue within the exhibitional space, their clear, equal but not tiring eurhythmy, make us think about the ancient pyramids in steps, the lantern towers, the romanic donjon or the architectonic scale models belonging to some alien civilization.
The multiple possibilities of using these objects that can be both vessels for ikebana floral composition and decorative volumes, tending to be the small-sized sculpture type, which, nowadays is performed with no difference in any kind of material, give Lucretia Milea's exhibits a large range of uses, offering, at the same time, a wonderful example of a proper understanding of the present objectives of ceramics.

- "Arta" Nr. 3/1989