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Fernando Garcés

  • Ceramicist
  • Talavera de la Reina, Spain
  • Master Artisan
Fernando Garcés Ceramicist
Contact
Spanish, English
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+34 696566634
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Rising to the challenge of clay

  • • The pottery wheel is the key element of Fernando's work
  • • He mainly uses stoneware and porcelain
  • • His pieces have been exhibited in national and international museums

Fernando Garcés is a professor and an artisan. The leitmotif of his life is his total devotion to, and passion for, ceramics. Always committed to the value of tradition in his craft, while aiming to give it a contemporary feel, Fernando’s work comprises researching and teaching, working in his workshop, throwing and shaping his vision. A master of different techniques, he aims to enhance the core of each ceramic paste and its features, conduct glazing and firing with an eye to sustainability, and control temperatures and emissions. Tradition is key to his work, reflected in his recurrent use of gold, based on the Hispanic-Moresque lusterware. His aesthetic revolves around pure lines and clean forms, with each piece given a personal touch.

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Works

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Corazón de Oro bowl

The bowl is one of the forms most used by man, which each culture has adapted to its needs and tastes, from the simplest to the most sophisticated forms. This stoneware bowl maintains the essence of a container. Its double wall gives it a robust appearance, and although its overall size is generous, the interior is quite small. The brightness of the gold interior invites you to peek inside.

Height 24 cm
Diameter 23 cm

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Jardín de Cristal plate

The bottom of this turned porcelain plate, practically flat, stands out against the thin asymmetrical contour lip. The piece breaks away from the expected design or aesthetic of a wheel-turned piece through its unusual form and glaze. The movement of the lip gives the object warmth and sensuality, while the contrasting interior, clean and flat, allows you to enjoy it without interference from the surface texture.

Height 4 cm
Diameter 30 cm

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Sculptural bowl

This simple sculptural bowl was shaped on a potter's wheel. Two very different materials coexist in terms of texture and colour: chamfered stoneware and glazed porcelain. The red of the naked paste and the clean, pure, brilliant white of porcelain express themselves freely with both strength and subtlety. In turning the material on the wheel and using his hands to shape the object, the potter leaves his mark on the piece – a mark that becomes a decoration and makes each piece unique.

Diameter 23 cm

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Bowl

Traditionally, manipulating porcelain on the potter's wheel in order to obtain the fine and delicate thicknesses to which we are accustomed is a time-consuming process. This small glazed porcelain bowl, thrown in the shape of a glass, departs from that sense of delicacy. Instead it implies strength, imposing its presence and maintaining the freshness with which it emerged from the wheel, including the grooves caused by the pressure of the craftsman's hands. These finger and palm prints, in addition to giving the piece a unique appearance, break the monotony of a uniform surface.

Height 7 cm
Diameter 6.5 cm

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Bowl

This bowl, turned in porcelain with a slightly conical form, has been glazed with a transparent blue on the outside, evoking the most classic and elegant European porcelain pieces of past centuries, when cobalt blue and gold were the norm. Gold is introduced in the form of three small golden balls, also made of porcelain.

Height 12 cm
Diameter 18 cm

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