Virgil Mocanu 2
Galateea Galleries
Choosing an area of action very clearly outlined by the status and the structure of objects Lucretia Milea implicitly brings a remarkable contribution to the correct and complete way of defining the phase where we can find ceramics today in its hypostasis of ambient fine art.
From the very beginning we have to give this explanation in order to eliminate the doubt which seems to float above the concept of decorative fine art, belittled by the excess of self reproduction and prejudice, the contemporary alternative including dimensions which surpass the old acceptance inviting especially the expressive values and the pure invention to cooperate. This is the very perspective which the objects presented today are harmonizing with. A group of artistic creations clearly defined as belonging to a territory of confluence when speaking about safeguarding the utilitarian qualities beyond the ambiental functions emphasizing upon the expressiveness of the form as well as upon the significant character of structure and volume, an opening door towards sculptural values and being in communication with the space.
This modern solution seems to be irrevocably established in our ceramics of high quality as a fundamental truth banking on a whole complex of concrete data and significances starting with the way of thinking about the curve, the cutting up in the space, passing through the scenery and finishing with the material, the tactility and the chromatics. Lucretia Milea comes up with a universe of rigorously geometrical volumes of rectangles and spheres interpreted as a classicizing statement without excess or pedantry to which she adds details or microstructures meant to introduce the artist's bit of emotional share, symbolistics and game like appearance. The cutting through volumes discloses a labyrinth like core, an expressive construction by its successive splitting giving a telescoping of the space as if fallowing a stage designing solution. At the virtual end of the perspective a filter is hindering the view towards something which seems to be an initiating donnée. It is a game of the forms, expressing in a
game like variant the idea of infinity and of continuity of structures as nets and glass-window like laces seem to suggest the recovering of state objects or, in a private variant, an obsolescent, nostalgic alveolan space.
Kept in an austere chromatic regime the white is prevailing but the bright brown of the raw material is often used as well. The works also enjoy a significantly synesthesic effect, a tactility coming from the diffuse sensations area managing to establish a cordial connection with the onlooker.
Sophisticated due to the apparent simplicity itself, very well-fitting the ambiental programme and revealing a subtle expressive effect, a severe professionalism and a total emotional participation, Lucretia Milea's ceramics brings into light a very good artist of the genre having a strong personality which has already been defined.
