Emerging perspectives in ceramic art. Analysis of work by rafa pérez and gregorio peño Perspectivas emergentes en el arte cerámico. Análisis de la obra de Rafa Pérez y Gregorio Peño

SERRA, MARÍA FLORENCIA; PALTRINIERI, AGUSTINA; RENDTORFF, NICOLÁS

Boletin de Arte

Universidad de Malaga, Departamento de Historia del Arte

Lugar: Malaga; Año: 2021 p. 213 - 223

0211-8483

Being an ancient practice, ceramic art has a historical legacy that brings together traditional knowledge. As with any historical trajectory, it presents continuities and ruptures in its permanent updates. This article analyzes the emergence of a current ceramic art aesthetic that proposes displacements concerning the subject-matter relationship and a review of the modes of conceiving ceramic materiality. We will analyze the artistic proposals of two renowned ceramic artists: Rafa Pérez and Gregorio Peño. We will pay attention to the articulation between the construction processes, the formal results and statements by the artists that allow us to acknowledge their position. From this analysis we can deduce that the behavior of the raw. material, its reactions and contingencies, take on a leading role in these artistic proposals. We acknowledge here the resonance of a new materialness that allows us to delineate a material turn in ceramic art.