Glazed porcelain; 29 x 23 x 12.5 cm porcelain base 3.5 cm
Signature on underside: Lightness/ Donde /no 23
Ceramic artist, art promoter, owner of Dondé Gallery in Warsaw. She graduated in Romance philology and post-graduated in ceramics, obtaining a diploma as a visual artist. She took a master class in Sèvres - the royal manufactory in France, where only the chosen ones go. She is a member of the Craft Potters Association in the UK. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions in Paris and at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, among others. She won the "Must Have 2020" award at the Łódź Design Festival for her "Peplum" collection. The artist also received an invitation to the Bienalle in Venice. Laureate of the "Green Brick" for her sensitivity to eco values in the art she creates and in everyday life, and for creating the unique EcoPorcelain, which proves that the meeting of waste with art is not only possible, but can turn into a touch of luxury.
Dominika Donde creates porcelain installations, spatial forms or unusual intimate sculptures. She translates her fascination with 18th and 19th century techniques into the contemporary language of art. The pursuit of harmonious beauty and striking form is clearly evident in her work. The Lightness sculpture is a maestro in every dimension. The project took a year to come into being, and seemed unrealistic due to enormous technological difficulties. Many masters said outright that it could not be done. Dominika Donde, however, managed to accomplish the "impossible." The combination of the dancer's balletic pose, in which a reference can be found to Mikhail Fokin's masterful choreographic miniature "The Dying Swan," still reproduced unchanged today, with the female nude and the perfection of white porcelain is a display of creative virtuosity, representing the essence of timeless beauty.
"A master for me is the one who does not leave the path of exploration, the one who is led by an inner inexhaustible curiosity and the dynamics of an inner search for ever new forms, ever new expression and aesthetics. Mastery is an ardent feeling of searching."
Dominika Donde
