Handmade Tiles for Monumentum Association
Description
Executed in: 2022
Medium: Terracotta tile (70 pieces edition)
Size: 36 x 15.5 cm
Provenance
Ștefan Câlția Foundation.
In collaboration with the Ștefan Câlția Foundation, the Monumentum Association has started an endeavor to raise financial resources for the Blue Fund, which aims to support the development of the Blue Houses Map of Romania - a guide that archives all houses with vernacular architecture - and of the Blue Project - a comprehensive educational program based on the encounter between architecture and other arts. The facades of three blue houses with vernacular architecture in the village where the painter Ștefan Câlția spent his childhood have been restored so far though this project.
The money resulting from the sale of lots 41-44 in this auction will be used to support the projects of the Monumentum Association, which aim to revitalize traditional crafts, promote the principles of reuse and authenticity through conservation and restoration activities, and educate property owners and local communities on the value of their own heritage and the importance of sustainable development through their own means, while respecting the local specificity.
Location
Bucharest
Description
Ștefan Câlția's works evoke a timeless present, narrated through universally relevant symbols, directly connected to life and the world. Câlția explores the mundane, depicting the beauty and significance of everyday objects and natural scenes, with the blue house being the synthesis of a Universe seen as a whole, a living organism that preserves memories and transforms itself alongside humanity.
The Handmade Tile for the Monumentum Association is part of a project created by Ștefan Câlția together with Vadim Crețu, in which the artist decorated a series of 70 tiles, following the tradition of the tile maker who who would mark the last tile at the end of the working day by scratching it. The symbol of the house - here the tile being a component element - and that of the color blue in Ștefan Câlția's work transforms a specific cultural emblem of rural southern Transylvania and of the artist's childhood into an expression of his love for his native places.
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