Pure Thoughts
Monica Borca is a woman who lives in the present, accepting that every day brings with
it death and rebirth.
This does not conflict with the challenges required for realisation, which for her
remains synonymous with change, growth and evolution. She lives and becomes with
simplicity. Her hands are plunged into clay and her heart is ready to decipher even the smallest emotion. As her hands
work the clay, her gaze turns to the close horizons of her daily world of
emotions, to her various roles as a woman, mother, companion, artist, daughter,
sister, friend. She lives out a microcosm of relationships in which human values
add together rather than cancelling each other out, a universe to her poetic
imagination. Monica Borca is a woman artist and sculptress who loves to portray love, the sentiment
of love. Whithin the cycle of sculptures entitled TAO, for many years now, she
has been creating pairs of anthropomorphic pots of rare beauty and poetry. Each
of the two parts needs the other in order to live, the male recognisable by the
protective gesture of the shoulders, the female by the affectionate forward
movement of the hips. Although not touching, the two parts are intimately
connected; while they seek their own individual equilibrium, they attract each
other like souls that are destined for each other. They are spirits dressed in
dark, opaque clay, clay that has been delicately scratch decorated and imbued
with unique luminosity. They testify to love, to the Tao, to the broad road, and
remind us that by living in the fullness of this sentiment we are all Taoists
without being aware of it, through a choice that is fundamentally not a choice. She
loves to represent the mystery of becoming, the process of realisation and self
liberation, which for her is never individual but intimately connected with the
presence of the Other. In the cycle of sculptures entitled Contatto, the link with the Other
becomes dynamic and generative, and in a certain sense indissoluble. It is the
destiny of human beings to search for each other; the reward of reunion is to
overcome individual identity through the possibility of perfection and thus
reach a state of greater serenity. This can be achieved only if fuelled by
sheared sentiments and mutual devotion. As in a game of mind and reality, the
two shapes - through their mutual contact - germinate by enchantment a third
figure in the space between them: the promise and reward of another higher
identity. If the shapes do not meet, then contact is not made and the shapes
lose their meaning, aquilibrium is destroyed and the sculpture vanishes. Monica
Borca is a sculptress who loves to represent emotion and emotion and believes in
the language of the body and gestures: emotion as a transitory state of the
spirit, gesture as poetic opening out of the body into space. In this case her
"Elemental Women" are represented in a group and occupy a space that
is freely determined by the observer. They appear to evoke sentiments of subtle
agreement and silent coplicity; They live through timeless sequences, still
frames of metaphysical astonishment. Monica Borca's "Elemental Women"
are spirits dressed in clay. They are an inherent part of the earth's femininity
and, shaped by the sculptress, become bodies with harmonious sinuosity of
gesture and movement. They have th black skin of raku figures and in their
long garments appear to relive the yellow of the sun that has dried them, the
blue of the sky towards which they all seem to be reaching out , the sea green
and luminous grey reminiscent of the water and air they lost in the battle with
fire during their chemical creation. They are named Earth, Watre, Air an Fire,
like the primary elements of ceramic alchemy and the fundamental symbols used in
Taoist thought to signify the circular process of life and human becoming. Every
kind of conflict in the combinatory dualism of the elements is a necessary
condition for one's own transformation in harmony with the laws of change. The
"Elemental Women" are spirits that seek each other out with a secret
need to reunite.
Stefano Gagliardi
Pure Thoughts
Monica Borca is a woman who lives in the present, accepting that every day brings with
it death and rebirth.
This does not conflict with the challenges required for realisation, which for her
remains synonymous with change, growth and evolution. She lives and becomes with
simplicity. Her hands are plunged into clay and her heart is ready to decipher even the smallest emotion. As her hands
work the clay, her gaze turns to the close horizons of her daily world of
emotions, to her various roles as a woman, mother, companion, artist, daughter,
sister, friend. She lives out a microcosm of relationships in which human values
add together rather than cancelling each other out, a universe to her poetic
imagination. Monica Borca is a woman artist and sculptress who loves to portray love, the sentiment
of love. Whithin the cycle of sculptures entitled TAO, for many years now, she
has been creating pairs of anthropomorphic pots of rare beauty and poetry. Each
of the two parts needs the other in order to live, the male recognisable by the
protective gesture of the shoulders, the female by the affectionate forward
movement of the hips. Although not touching, the two parts are intimately
connected; while they seek their own individual equilibrium, they attract each
other like souls that are destined for each other. They are spirits dressed in
dark, opaque clay, clay that has been delicately scratch decorated and imbued
with unique luminosity. They testify to love, to the Tao, to the broad road, and
remind us that by living in the fullness of this sentiment we are all Taoists
without being aware of it, through a choice that is fundamentally not a choice. She
loves to represent the mystery of becoming, the process of realisation and self
liberation, which for her is never individual but intimately connected with the
presence of the Other. In the cycle of sculptures entitled Contatto, the link with the Other
becomes dynamic and generative, and in a certain sense indissoluble. It is the
destiny of human beings to search for each other; the reward of reunion is to
overcome individual identity through the possibility of perfection and thus
reach a state of greater serenity. This can be achieved only if fuelled by
sheared sentiments and mutual devotion. As in a game of mind and reality, the
two shapes - through their mutual contact - germinate by enchantment a third
figure in the space between them: the promise and reward of another higher
identity. If the shapes do not meet, then contact is not made and the shapes
lose their meaning, aquilibrium is destroyed and the sculpture vanishes. Monica
Borca is a sculptress who loves to represent emotion and emotion and believes in
the language of the body and gestures: emotion as a transitory state of the
spirit, gesture as poetic opening out of the body into space. In this case her
"Elemental Women" are represented in a group and occupy a space that
is freely determined by the observer. They appear to evoke sentiments of subtle
agreement and silent coplicity; They live through timeless sequences, still
frames of metaphysical astonishment. Monica Borca's "Elemental Women"
are spirits dressed in clay. They are an inherent part of the earth's femininity
and, shaped by the sculptress, become bodies with harmonious sinuosity of
gesture and movement. They have th black skin of raku figures and in their
long garments appear to relive the yellow of the sun that has dried them, the
blue of the sky towards which they all seem to be reaching out , the sea green
and luminous grey reminiscent of the water and air they lost in the battle with
fire during their chemical creation. They are named Earth, Watre, Air an Fire,
like the primary elements of ceramic alchemy and the fundamental symbols used in
Taoist thought to signify the circular process of life and human becoming. Every
kind of conflict in the combinatory dualism of the elements is a necessary
condition for one's own transformation in harmony with the laws of change. The
"Elemental Women" are spirits that seek each other out with a secret
need to reunite.
Stefano Gagliardi
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San Gimignano
22/02/03 - 15/03/03
PENSIERI PURI
