An art ceramist Simona Putrich from Ljubljana had an art postcard published by the local publishing house Les Editions Arts et Images du Monde in Paris within the series Artists and Masters of the 20th Century, which features a colour reproduction of her ceramics Untitled, 1991 ...
If you really love something, don't let it go. Simona Putrich sticks to her ceramics with the same love she felt a good ten years ago (she was twenty at that time). This love was growing in her, inspiring her to create with clay - getting the surprising container sculptures out of it ...
When does the branch sprout on the development tree of human activity, where the rational- utilitarian overlaps with the magical-spiritual? When and why does that turning point come when a butterfly of purely aesthetic ambition emerges from a semantically charged, but still utilitarian, product?...
Simona Putrich, a new name in the field of the Slovenian art ceramics, has focused our views, with her current exhibition in the bright spaces of the renovated Krka Exhibition Centre in Ljubljana, on some fundamental questions of origin and initiatives of this genre...
Clay, certainly one of the oldest, easily mouldable and to the touch "warm", natural design materials, by means of which man "implemented" his ideas and feelings into tangible forms, has undoubtedly experienced its diverse destiny from the very beginning, either as a functional companion of human daily life, transformed into a container or other useful object ...
