2020, 15x15x75cm, Media: Stoneware, Firing Process: Electric, Oxidation, Surface: Glazed
Cycles speaks of the process of learning and spiritual evolution, in a context that goes beyond human life. Also of the teaching that comes from mistakes and pain.
2020, 17x 15 x 65 cm , Media: Stoneware, Firing Process: Electric, Oxidation, Surface: Glazed
Cycles speaks of the process of learning and spiritual evolution, in a context that goes beyond human life. Also of the teaching that comes from mistakes and pain.
2020, 28 x20x 75cm , Media: Stoneware, Firing Process: Electric, Oxidation, Surface: Glazed, Relief
Les âges du temps shows us how the passage of time erodes and thus creates in this wear and tear a new beauty.
2020, 28 x20x 75cm, Media: Stoneware, Firing Process: Electric, Oxidation, Surface: Glazed, Relief
See introduction to Les âges du temps.
2020, 17 x 12 cm each head, Media: Stoneware, Firing Process: Electric, Oxidation, Surface: Glazed
Mutability, speaks of the constant changes in our mood throughout the day. The heads are always the same but the variations in the textures, decorations and colours seek to express this idea. It is an installation made up of 365 heads, still in progress.
2020, 17z11x17cm, Media: Stoneware, Firing Process: Electric, Oxidation, Surface: Glazed
Renaissance, symbolizes through the frog the necessary transformation in the search for the understanding of our mission in life. The work of sculpting our being often involves a symbolic death or the abandonment of certain stages on this path towards inner peace.
2020, 28 x20x 75cm , Media: Stoneware, Firing Process: Electric, Oxidation, Surface: Glazed
See introduction to Les âges du temps.
2020, 28 x20x 79cm, Media: Stoneware, Firing Process: Electric, Oxidation, Surface: Glazed
See introduction to Les âges du temps. The exploration of textures points in this case to the casting in bronze and iron. Bringing out the qualities and expressiveness of ceramic material with its own identity.
2020, 15x 17 x 40 cm, Media: Stoneware, Firing Process: Electric, Oxidation, Surface: Glazed
Bipolarism deals with the insanity of our society, the contradictions to which we are constantly exposed, the permanent conflict between what we have to do and what we want to do.
2020, 15x 15 x 40 cm, Media: Stoneware, Firing Process: Electric, Oxidation, Surface: Glazed
Bipolarism deals with the insanity of our society, the contradictions to which we are constantly exposed, the permanent conflict between what we have to do and what we want to do.
Artist Statement
The confinement and the exceptional crisis of this year have served to orient research towards an introspection directed at the human being. The different series on which I have worked use a universal, archetypal and timeless alphabet of shapes. It is my wish to add a fifth element of spiritual reflection to the work and the transformative play of the four elements involved in the complex art of ceramics, beyond the materiality of the pieces. If ceramics is capable of suggesting this reflection to us in its simplicity, my work will be rewarded.A certain humour is present. Also the joy of living in the choice of simplicity and refinement of forms.
Made to look at, so that the eyes feast on them, to get lost in them as they become a window, a bottle thrown into the sea, they expect no echo or immediate response. They enlarge our field of vision without responding to a logical or rational discourse.
They have their shadowy areas, their hidden side, highlighting our inner labyrinth. Mysterious like life itself, they are only separated from it by their artificiality.
-- Javier Gonzalez
Bio
I started learning pottery at the age of 15. Training in Fine Arts specialized in Artistic ceramics and Master in Theory and Aesthetics of Art. As an artist I have worked in sculpture with steel, casting of bronze and aluminum, stone, etc., painting, actions in the urban context and installations. In parallel I have had a renewable energy company that later specialized in construction applying a holistic concept of sustainable and ecological building, concepts that I apply when projecting in architecture. My years of experience in building prompted me to study architecture. I have lived in desert countries and studied mud architecture and passive climate control mechanisms in depth. Currently I am a consultant in architecture, architect and ceramic artist, for the year 2021 I have planned to introduce ceramic works in architectural contexts. I’ve lived in Switzerland for 9 years, I have architectural projects in southern Spain, in the only desert area that exists in Europe where clay, a ceramic raw material, is the fundamental material.