“the waters of the basins were seen and the foundations of the world were revealed”
– Psalm 18,16
Juliet of Silence’s artistic approach was shaped by her experiences of essential East-West contact, building bridges between constructivist and concrete art, Far Eastern aesthetics, European design and local pottery traditions. Among his masters are painter and sculptor János Fajó (1937-2018) and ceramicist and master kiln builder Frederick L. Olsen.
An important pillar of his workshop is the pioneering research and development of indigenous, local materials and their adaptation to his own technology. For many years, he has been continuously collecting natural resources, clays, earth, rocks and minerals from all over the country in the spirit of a sustainable artistic practice, with unique results.
The fruits of this interdisciplinary and cross-cultural work are now on display in the gallery space. The exhibition is a selection of material from the solo exhibition “Liquid Earth”, organised in the framework of the European Capital of Culture Veszprém-Balaton 2023, complemented by new pieces and site-specific installations based on the concept.
In the exhibition Liquid Earth – Objects from the Sea of Volcanoes, Julia Néma captures a fictional recreation of volcanic activity on the surface of her objects, approaching the origins of ceramics as an artistic medium through uncharted paths.
In the spirit of geometric abstraction, using a minimalist toolkit, cleanly shaped sculptures and panel paintings reveal the beauty of nature from the deep layers. The spherical shapes of Lithosphere represent the Earth’s gravity, Lentil gathers, centres and preserves with a calm slope, Tabula’s paintings, which are close to the genre of the panel painting, evoke the spiritual dimensions of painting, their surfaces revealing the painterly quality of the material in transition, while Stele brings the painterly effects of Tabula into space, while placing it in the context of archaeology and the built environment.