Gustavo Perez Ceramics

12 5 8 x 9 7 8 x 9 7 8 inches.

Gustavo perez ceramics.

I think i have a huge cocktail of influences. He studied engineering mathematics and philosophy at the university of mexico and then enrolled at the design and crafts school in mexico city to study ceramics. His work is a magnet. The ceramics of gustavo pérez are.

He studied engineering for one year mathematics for one year and 2 years of philosophy at the university of mexico between 1968 and 1971. Gustavo pérez is born in mexico city in 1950. Before he discovered his passion for clay he studied engineering mathematics and philosophy never feeling. Perez is a proud supporter of cfile.

Contemporary hispanic pottery of gustav perez pre hispanic art is part of my background but everyone loves this work. Since he began working with clay in 1971 perez s work has concentrated primarily in a research of the creative possibilities offered by the use of the throwing wheel. We all profit from knowing it and the aesthetics the sensibility and the techniques this huge legacy transmits. The ceramic art of the maya the olmec the zapotec as well as the korean the chinese the lslamic or the greek is our common heritage.

Material texture color and design all correspond in perez s works writes alfonso colorado. Gustavo pérez grew up in mexico city. Small details are important to pérez as he works through variations like a musician improvising on a melody. In 1980 he acquired a scholarship to study two years at the saint joost.

Jun 5 2014 i hope it can be understood that if one wants to be creative with clay craftmanship le métier is essential. It draws people in. Gustavo perez vase 26 2016 stoneware. Maybe it is in my subconscious.

Photo by ash haywood. Throughout his long career he has continued to explore and to push the boundaries of his medium. Gustavo pérez 15 452 2017 peters projects of santa fe proud to present lines an exhibition of ceramic works by the internationally known artist gustavo pérez to open september 8. Pérez s ceramics have achieved worldwide recognition including a 2017 exhibition in his hometown at the museo de antropología de xalapa mexico consisting.

I am convinced of the necessity to give everything one can give and for many years before a personal way a personal language can be discovered. Things grow inside me. In 1971 he joined for two years la escuela de diseño y artesanías school of design and crafts mexico city ceramics department eda. Gustavo pérez has transformed ceramics into a fine art.

For me it took some 22 years before i could feel there was something that i could call really mine. He currently lives and works in veracruz mexico and prissac france. Gustavo pérez was born in mexico city in 1950. Maybe i had one idea when i was five years old and it took fifty years to come out.

Despite a modesty of means and scale gustavo pérez s ceramics have achieved worldwide recognition. How it becomes a part of my work i don t know. They have been growing for years. He incises lines into the surface of clay with no superfluous.