Tranzit

group show, Viltin Gallery, Budapest

July 29 – August 29, 2020

“The amalgamation of fine arts, design, and handicraft traditions characterizes Júlia NÉMA’s (1973) austere works with a minimal approach combined with the constructivist and Japanese traditions. Different art fields and techniques meet in her minimalist paper-porcelain objects and reliefs. Most of her works collide the material qualities and her artistic approaches by crossing the media borderlines. The artist herself compiles the material of the reliefs, paper-porcelain: when the porcelain and the paper fiber blend, the character of both materials emerge, and within whiteness, softness and hardness, elasticity and fragility coexist. In her A4 series, the standard format of the blank sheet of paper serves as a basic unit. She continues with spontaneous, gentle gestures: fold, scratch, or cut. The lines then turn the planar view into spatial, opening it to light, shadow, and space. The familiar pattern of lines and grids redrawn with fine scratches on her porcelain Exercise Books’ pages drawing attention to themselves with their mundaneness and lost function.”

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