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  • [ATTERRIR] by Lucia BRU

    23 mars 2010

    There are some researches which perfectly match the spirit and atmosphere of a given place : this is obviously the case with Lucia Bru @ Maison Grégoire. Lucia Bru is a sculptor, but a sculptor in the widest acception of the word : beyond the objectual result of her creative process, her work is very much about giving life to / making space and architecture breathe. She animates the void, makes it almost tangible, trespassing its immateriality.

    Pure, concentrated, her work offers some resistance to the onlooker. In more than one way, it captivates. The creative gesture is precise, delicate simple, as are generally the forms she creates and the materials she uses (porcelain (which has been for years her favourite field of investigation), paper, plastic etc…

    In the delicate discretion of the formal achievements, through the subtle, if somehow suspensive and always questioning, integration to architecture, as well as by means of a suggested instanteneous temporality brought about by a somehow precarious, fragile balance, there is a form of unescapably dialectical resiliency to them, which captivates the viewer.

    Dialectical and complementary is the tension between an obvious fondess for geometrical forms and an aspiration to break this geometry, as if she were caressing the straight lines of the forms in an an attempt at making them vibrate.

    Dialectical is also the tension existing between the regular occultation (through forms or display) and visibility, thereby somehow paradoxically strengthened. It is not a mere coincidence if Lucia often resorts to transparent or reflective materials, and to grid-like or perforated patterns.

    This oscillation between this practice of occultation and the ensuing interstitial visibility is also manifest in her videos, a less-known side of her production. Two videos will be premiered for this show at Maison Grégoire.

    Emmanuel Lambion

    Opening on 15 April 2010, 6 30 p.m.

    Exhibition open on Saturdays 2-6 p.m., from 15/4/2010 au 25/05/2010

    Special Opening on the occasion of Art Brussels, Saturday 24 avril 1130 a.m. until 8 30 p.m.

    L’Observatoire - Maison Grégoire 292 Dieweg - B 1180 Bruxelles www.maisongregoire.be