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text: Jędrzej Zakrzewski
reader: Amina Olszewska
Publication date: 21.02.2024
In his work, Henry Lula devotes great importance to the artistic expression of glazes. The artist achieves exceptional effects by using heavy metal compounds such as copper in the mixtures he develops. Lula uses the technique of firing in a reductive atmosphere, which involves cutting off the air supply, in conjunction with copper glazes. Thanks to this technology, ceramic objects gain shiny surfaces of red, brown or green color.
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23.02 – 19.05.2024Henryk LulaCeramics: The art of matterThe exhibition presents a wide selection of works by Henryk Lula — artist, teacher and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Comprising over 100 objects, it is the most comprehensive presentation to date of the achievements of this outstanding artist, who has worked in the technique and medium of ceramics from the 1950s to the present day. The theme of matter, emphasised in the title, corresponds to the conceptual message of the presentation, as well as the artist’s theoretical reflection on its role in art. The exhibition also explores the question of the development of the modern ceramic tradition in Poland, eluding the criteria of applied art or design, which has been vibrant on the Polish art scene since the 1960s.
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