Rodul vie]ii / Fruit of life, 2006, gresie [i por]elan / stoneware and porcelain 1250-1300 °C, 25 x 25 x 90 cm
Gherghina Costea's explorations seem to always have something that provokes unusual admiration, without drifting into experimentalist frivolity, even though she innovates boldly under the impulse of the fascination with which she lives her experiments. Because the artist also undertakes a model of sensible interrelationship with the environments surrounding her, rediscovering sequentially bits of the mysterious genetic infinitude of the world that we are! This explorer instinct for the secretive intimacy of unspeaking realms, nurtured her hope of finding alternative ways of communication with all these materializations of life. In this resides, I believe, the playful approach of the artist when fabricating, according to her own fantasy and artistic poetry, bridges connecting with the ”creatures” that populate the fascinating, through their diversity and vitality, vegetal paradises. These are – according to the fabulous and monumental sculptural porcelain collection imagined by the artist and that could be suggestively and somewhat poetically entitled ”The garden from before the world” – the significant stakes of her creations over the past few years. When developing forms and shapes, Gherghina Costea pursues the fulfillment of two principles, fundamental to her aesthetic credo: the most suggestive and corporeal valorization of the light in sensual alternation between transparency and opacity, on one hand, and the non-mimetically, but pregnant conservation of the expressive particularities of the materials that she uses. As well, those of the chromatic interventions, of the modeling and of the decorative elements penciled in, hand imprinted or incised and, of course, of the subtle processes of firing, which in the artist's intention must reflect not necessarily things, but their spirit, their ineffable being in the universe. As a whole, this exhibition concept signed by Gherghina Costea reveals a certain side of the human being's aspiration, that of laying the seeds of dream in the furrow of reality, with a feeling that this life giving and personification would please the divinity. Gherghina Costea proves to us that reality of a dream may become, at times, a nutrient for the objective reality of the world.