Nitsa Meletopoulos: Selected works, 2019-2023
Nitsa Meletopoulos develops her art between design, pottery and sculpture. Her pieces are a combination of different ceramic techniques like throwing, molding as well as 3D printing. She takes inspiration as much from art history, the Grotesques and the Rocaille style from pop culture and kitsch. Interested in Maximalism and those cumulative styles that overflow, she develops an aesthetics of excess. She mixes styles, playing with historical and traditional references. Her colorful volumes, full of signs and ornaments, balance between the natural and the artificial, even the supernatural, with sometimes a psychedelic repertoire of colors, creating strange organic pieces and vessels disturbing the perception.
Sculptural vases, 2019-2023
Mineral Lanscapes, 2019-2023
This is a sculptural serie witch shapes are inspired by the mineral, animal and vegetal world. The pieces made by collage of different textures and forms become surrealistic presences, sometimes almost alive, coming from another planet where vibrant gradient colors grow all over.
Mineral Lanscapes, 2019-2023, Stoneware, porcelain, slip, glaze
Cup Club and Minimimi vases, 2022-2023
This serie is pop, colorful and funny. All pieces are first thrown then transformed with ornaments and blush.
Cup Club and Minimimi vases, 2022-2023, Porcelain, glazes
Not Barbotine, 2021-2022
This is a semi-sculptural serie oscillating between the asymmetrical and organic forms of Art Nouveau, the surprising and kitsch design of the popular Barbotine pitchers and the surrealistic look of fake stones in the Rocaille gardens.
Not Barbotine, 2021-2023, porcelain, glaze