"Cherubini is recognized for building by hand in clay, and that commitment to direct contact remains central here. Terracotta and white earthenware carry layered glazes in turquoise, amber, emerald, and metallic luster, applied with an eye toward weight and tempo. The surfaces feel worked over time, and show evidence of the artist's hand that stays visible even at a distance."
"' Carrington vividly writes about her harrowing experiences during World War II,' the artist tells designboom. ' For me, her story offered an investigation, of sorts, into ideas of creativity, reality, disbelief and humanity, and its perception through a feminist lens. It feels like a bit of a mirror to our contemporary society, reflecting much that is going on with our current rights and freedoms.'"
Nicole Cherubini’s Hotel Roma presents hand-built ceramic sculptures arranged across Friedman Benda’s gallery, ranging from monumental to intimate in scale and densely detailed with symbolic elements. Terracotta and white earthenware pieces bear layered turquoise, amber, emerald, and metallic glazes applied to emphasize weight and tempo. Surfaces reveal prolonged working and retain visible evidence of the artist’s hand at a distance. The exhibition draws on Leonora Carrington’s Down Below, invoking wartime experience and Surrealist motifs to consider creativity as endurance and resistance. Cherubini foregrounds feminist perspectives by linking historical women’s creative agency to contemporary questions of rights and freedoms.
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