Carpenters Workshop Gallery is proud to announce its latest exhibition by Aneta Regel. The Polish artist based in London will exhibit ‘Gneiss’ a solo show of ceramic sculptures from her collection at the gallery’s space in Paris.
Gneiss is a foliated metamorphic rock identified by its bands and lenses of varying composition, while other bands contain granular minerals with an interlocking texture.
Pushing the idea of functional sculpture to its aesthetic limits, Aneta Regel differs to many ceramic sculptors as she takes inspiration from nature rather than the human form. Drawing on natural forms including rocks, riverbeds and fields, the artist seeks to encapsulate the energies and rhythms of her subject and foremost the emotional response they invoke. She aims to create her vision of reality, a physical description of the landscape.
Although she uses natural forms as the basis of her work, Aneta Regel states that she ‘creates objects that exist neither in the natural or manufactured world, but which, once brought into being, can reflect and transmit information and feelings about nature and my (her) own existence’.
Aneta Regel uses raw materials such as rock and clay, manipulating them to resemble other textures found in the natural world such as tree bark, moss and coral. Her works usually remain unglazed and only partially colored in order to convey the dynamic tension between power and finesse, the passage from one state to another.
Furthermore, through this comparison of the two worlds, Aneta Regel conveys the ‘dynamic friction from the natural world to the constructed world’.
Inspired by the landscapes of her native Poland, her sculptures represent the emotional attachment to her surroundings and her sense of awe in the face of nature. There is a romanticism to her work. The movements and energy of nature that are captured combined with her own emotional experiences demand empathy from the viewer.
ABOUT | ANETA REGEL
Born in 1976 and raised in Poland, Aneta Regel graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2006 with a Masters in Ceramics and Glass. Fundamentally rejecting the title of ‘potter’, Aneta Regel classes herself as a ceramic sculptor, a term more accurate for the pieces she creates. She does not acknowledge clay as a lower-tiered or craft material. Aneta Regel has exhibited her sculptures all over the world, including the US, Brussels and Poland.
Aneta Regel’s most important exhibitions have been in the UK, where she has showcased her work in prominent group shows at the Tate Modern and the Saatchi Gallery. She has recently taken part in the British Ceramics Biennial, a show that celebrates contemporary ceramics from around the world. In 2014 she became a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.
Based in Stoke Newington, London’s artistic hotbed, Aneta Regel creates her ceramic sculptures at the Chocolate Factory, a community of artists’ studios and former confectionary manufacturer, now home to some of London’s most innovative artists.
CARPENTERS WORKSHOP GALLERY
Carpenters Workshop Gallery produces and exhibits functional sculptures by international rising and already established artists and designers going outside their traditional territories of expression.
The gallery is actively involved in the research and production of the limited edition works exhibited. The choices are guided by the research of an emotional, artistic and historical relevance; a relevance that appears as an evidence.
The gallery relies on the partnership of childhood friends, Julien Lombrail and Loic Le Gaillard. They first opened a space in London’s Chelsea in 2006 in a former carpenter’s workshop; they then followed with a second space in Mayfair in 2008. The opening of a 600 square metre space in Paris in 2011 in the heart of Le Marais district, an address steeped in history as it was previously occupied by the Galerie de France for several decades, was a return to their roots.
2015 marks a major turning point for the gallery with the opening of Carpenters Workshop | Roissy, a unique 8,000 meter square space dedicated to artistic research and development, bringing together the elite of artisans, an homage to the French heritage of ‘Arts Décoratifs’.
Carpenters Workshop Gallery | New York is the lastest step in the gallery’s remarkable development. This new space opening in November 2015 confirms the leadership and dominant position of the gallery in today’s international territory of art and design.
EXHIBITION FROM NOVEMBER 26, 2015 TO JANUARY 10, 2016
OPENING THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26, 2015 - FROM 6 - 9 PM
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