de Rerum Natura @ Museum of Applied Arts, Belgrade, Serbia, 1986
The Fruit Box, 1980
porcelain, about 20 x 8 x 10 cm each
Growth, 1982
Porcelain
Sizes: about 25 x 15 x 7 cm each
Growth (detail), 1982
Porcelain
Sizes: about 25 x 15 x 7 cm each
String of beads, 1982
Glazed Porcelain
Sizes: about 18 x 10 x 8 cm each
Winter Gifts, 1984
Majolica
Sizes varies 10 - 25 cm
Summer Freshness, 1983
Porcelain
Sizes: 16 x 20 x 5 cm each
Row, 1982
Cast Porcelain
Sizes: 16 x 20 x 5 cm each
Circle, 1986
Cast porcelain
Sizes: about 17 x 15 x 6 cm each
First blades of grass, 1986
Porcelain
Sizes: 25 x 20 x 7 cm each
White grass, View from the exhibition, 1986
Porcelain
Sizes varies 10-24 cm
Big Grass, 1983
Stoneware
Realized at the Arandjelovac International Ceramic Symposium
View from exhibition
Solo show at the Museum of Applied Arts, Belgrade
The 1986 retrospective exhibition, (curated by Svetlana Isakovic), was
a pivotal moment in Delia's career which brought together all of her
efforts to find an authentic conceptual language and new ways of
establishing ceramics as an mode of artistic production. After spending
several years in various factories and ceramic workshops, the artist
enjoyed an exceptionally prolific period, rewarded with a genuine and
warm welcome in the ex-Yugoslav art scene.
The body of work exhibited under the general title "De Rerum
Natura" expressed the quintessence of Delia’s work between 1979 and
1986 and comprised a series of objects realized in the spirit of
experimenting with traditional techniques and then rearranged, grouped
and displayed in relation to the environmental space of the gallery,
using them as sculptural entities discharged of any functional
connotation.
