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Arturo Mora Benavent

  • Reflejo Metalico
  • Ceramicist
  • Manises, Spain
  • Master Artisan
Arturo Mora Benavent Ceramicist
Contact
Spanish
Hours:
Monday to Friday 8:30 - 14:00/15:30 - 19:00
Phone:
+34 636888093
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Lustreware elegance

  • • Arturo specialises in Manises medieval lustreware
  • • He is the only one practising this technique in his region
  • • He graduated at the Manises School of Ceramics with special honours

Arturo Mora Benavent was born in 1970 in Manises, a Mediterranean suburb around Valencia. He descends from an ancient family of artisans, discovered his ancestors' craft at an early age and made it a vital part of his life. Arturo learned the secrets of 15th-century Manises lustreware from his father, Salvador Mora Escobar, and the artisans who worked in his workshop. He opened his own workshop in 1999, after completing his studies. Arturo is dedicated to researching, perfecting and preserving this technique, focusing on the reproduction of 15th-century Manises lustre ceramics and the use of metallic lustre to innovate with new offerings. Today he is one of few masters in lustre ceramics in the world who are still actively working.

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Works

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Photo: ©Monica Romero
Jar

This jar, decorated in cobalt blue and metallic lustre from the artisan's Persian series, is a reproduction of medieval Manises ceramics from the 15th century. It is made in the traditional way on the potter's wheel, hand-painted with a third reduction firing, according to the ancient technique of lustre-painted ceramics.

Photo: ©Monica Romero
Vase

This vase, which belongs to Arturo Mora's series Pompas de jabón, has been made by the artisan using the same technique and artisanal process as that used in the 15th century, in combination with contemporary techniques. Arturo's intention in making this piece has been to highlight the fact that the ancestral technique of metallic lustre is still very much alive and relevant today.

Photo: ©Monica Romero
Vase

This vase or terraç, decorated with a well-known series of dotted flowers and painted in cobalt blue and metallic lustre, is another reproduction of medieval Manises ceramics from the 15th century. It has been made using a potter's wheel in the traditional manner and hand-painted with a third reduction firing according to the ancestral medieval technique of lustre-painted ceramics.

Photo: ©Monica Romero
Plate

Arturo Mora reproduced a plate of medieval ceramics from Manises with this piece. It represents a love scene and it is probably the work of an Italian apprentice who was in this Spanish Mediterranean locality at the end of the 15th century to learn the technique of golden earthenware. The scenes and the costumes of the characters follow the Florentine fashion of the 15th century.

Photo: ©Monica Romero
Cuenco

This plate decorated in cobalt blue and metallic lustre is a reproduction of 15th century Manises ceramics. The central motif is an eight-point star, the meaning of which is eternity. The star is accompanied by atauriques and the tree of life which represents the origin of all things. It has been made in the traditional way following the techniques of the potter's wheel and hand-painting with a third firing in reduction according to the ancestral medieval technique of lustre-painted ceramics.

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