Tradition is the passing on of fire
and not the worship of ashes.
In September 2020, BURN-IN invites you to an atmospheric art journey with Aurora CID (Spain) and Cordelia Lehmann-Reinthaller (Austria). In the exhibition Waving Symphonies of Color, both artists play passionately with attractive shapes, strong colors and unusual materials. The special magic is created by the reduction to the essentials, a kind of ultimate sculptural extraction that transforms the exhibition space into a contemplative setting.
Fractal SINFONIA
The Spanish artist Aurora CID, who lives in Valdepeñas, lets the geometric flow. CID's work, a kind of intellectual trompe-l'œi (French for "deception of the eye"), draws on the traditional history of geometry and mathematics in art and on the young discipline of Benoit B. Mandelbrot's fractals. The artist swings between the geometry of architecture and the geometry of nature, playing with sameness and difference, calculation and chance, continuity and variation, dynamics and tension. The extremely rarely used support material Kraft (corrugated cardboard) creates an enormous sculptural quality, which is perfectly staged using oil, resin and varnish. The viewer immediately succumbs to the unique aura of CID's fractal symphonies. The strong and at the same time harmonious color tone ignites the senses.
Ceramic artist Cordelia Lehmann-Reinthaller, who lives in Vienna and the Waldviertel, presents colorful clay and fine raku sculptures, most of which were created during the coronavirus crisis in 2020. Raku, a very special firing technique for ceramic bodies, was developed in 16th century Japan and for a long time was associated exclusively with traditional tea ceremonies. In addition to the classic red and black rakus, modern rakus became established, to which Lehmann-Reinthaller's expressive figures can also be attributed. In addition, conceptual and monumental works were created that combine the contemporary with the traditional and create a completely new type of ceramic fire art.
The art
of raku
The special nature of raku is based on the beauty of the imperfect, unfinished and irregular and the lively dialogue between Orient and Occident. Lehmann-Reinthaller's works impress with their strong colors and forms, great craftsmanship and artistic finesse. Many of the works on display were created during the coronavirus crisis (including Corona Statistik, Maske - verrutscht and AugenBlicke)and sensitively reference the explosive challenges of this time, following the spirit of raku.
