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Diego Añez

Diego Añez Ceramicist
Contact
Spanish, English
Hours:
Monday to Saturday 8:00 - 17:00
Phone:
+57 3158706521
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Heritage ceramics for use today

  • • Diego travelled throughout Colombia to learn his craft
  • • He is inspired by nature and past uses of ceramics
  • • He met his wife and together they opened up their workshop

Diego Añez first connected with ceramics when he was just a child. As a young adult, he travelled the country to know the craft in more depth and learn from the best masters. He spent more than 15 years marvelling at the creations in each region and understanding that the use of ceramics has deep roots. Today, Diego runs the Magma Cerámica workshop with his wife, María Paula, where they create innovative and unique ceramic objects. Diego, now in his sixties, has been awarded the Medalla a la Maestría Artesanal (Craftsmanship Mastery Medal). His greatest treasure is knowing that he continues to spread the knowledge that so many others handed over to him. This is how he honours them, he says.

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Works

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Milky Way big bottle

This big bottle is worked up on the lathe, and then glazed. It is inspired by last century's milk bottles from the milkman. The ceramic polishes are created and prepared in Diego Añez's workshop, with fluxes and refractories, minerals, and dyes. The pouring technique used on this bottle achieves unique tones and effects.

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Landscape bowl

This piece is produced on the lathe, using different pigments and minerals for the polishing, achieving special effects that remind us of the landscapes of the Andean region of Colombia: mountains, rivers, waterfalls and snowy peaks.

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Waterfall bowl

Blue waterfall bowl is inspired by the Salto del Tequendama, a sacred place for de Muiscas ancestors. Its lower part has a medium blue tone, which is also present in the interior of the bowl. The upper part has a light blue tone.

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Ebony strainer

This strainer is part of the 'more ceramics, less plastic' range, which aims to generate awareness around the use of polluting materials, and encourage a return to ancestral crafts such as ceramics for use at the table and in the kitchen.

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Coral lamp

This piece is part of the Luminarias collection. The ceramics paste was designed in order to obtain the texture and colour of the corals in Colombian reefs. When the lamp is turned on, the designs are reflected in the surfaces, thus generating a warm and relaxing light.

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