Gregorio Peño: Selected works, 2017-2021
All processes involved in ceramics from the collection of the earth, the preparation of the clay, the creation of the object up until it is put under fire, mark a timeline that is familiar to me. The transformation of the material is for me a conceptual dictionary which defines an artistic routine aside of the one set by schools and other groups.
There exists a common gesture in all my objectual investigation, a gesture that is not simply a measurement between what is human and what is an object, but an assemblage, a crossroads with no dividing lines between practice and theory or craftsman and artist. Matter is conceived as an element of deepening and development.
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- Colapso 8, 2020. Mixed media. Melted clay. Stoneware, slip and glaze. 38x42x46 cm
- Colapso 9, 2021. Mixed media. Melted clay. Stoneware, slip and glaze. 48x42x38 cm
- Colapso 10, 2021. Mixed media. Melted clay. Stoneware, slip and glaze. 44x40x39 cm
- Colapso 11, 2021. Mixed media. Melted clay. Stoneware, slip and glaze. 52x38x37 cm
- Colapso 13, 2021. Mixed media. Melted clay. Stoneware, slip and glaze. 53x43x36 cm
- Compresiones 3, 2017. Mixed media. Stoneware, glass and rubber band. 42x62x37 cm
- Compresiones 4, 2017. Mixed media. Stoneware, glass and rubber band. 44x36x43 cm
- Compresiones 5, 2017. Mixed media. Stoneware, glass and rubber band. 43x53x42 cm
- Compresiones 6, 2017. Mixed media. Stoneware, glass and rubber band. 49x39x41 cm
- Site-specific installation made throughout the Taiwan Ceramics Residency Program, New Taipei Yingge Ceramics Museum, 2017