The exhibition is therefore not only a retrospective view of the intense and focused journey of one of the fundamental personalities of Slovak ceramic (and other) sculpture and design of the second half of the 20th century, it is also a record of current work in which the artist continues to create his zen-meditative organic assemblages anchored in natural processes and forces.
Jozef Sušienka is a staunch environmentalist. He has been cultivating the empathetic interplay between nature, ceramics, and mankind since the 1960s – long before ecology became a global challenge and a necessity of life. Considering ceramics to belong naturally inside and outside, in the park and in the apartment, he allows works to function variably and openly as a sculpture, vessel, fountain, luminaire, and as a tombstone. His Boulders, Puffballs, Martians, Owls, and Ikebanas are thus still living, growing, grouping, and multiplying.
