Silver glaze
Audioguide to the exhibition "Henryk Lula. Ceramics. Art of Matter"
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text: Cezary Lisowski
reader: Amina Olszewska

Publication date: 21.02.2024

One of the favorite glazing techniques used by Henryk Lula, is finishing the surface of the vessels with a silver reduction glaze. Traditionally ceramists used a silver nitrate solution to achieve this, but the mirror-like effect that resulted from such a process did not satisfy the artist. Lula used silver chloride, which he added to the composition of the glaze. In this way he created surfaces of great variety of silver stains with other colors.

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  • 23.02 – 19.05.2024
    Henryk Lula
    Ceramics: The art of matter

    The 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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