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I-CONS, EMBLEMATIC CERAMICS OF VENEZUELA (2017)

LUIS FELIPE FARÍAS
CARACAS, 2017


I-Conos, Cerámica Emblemática Venezolana was an exhibition that brought together sixty members of the ceramic movement in Venezuela, creating a unique opportunity to appreciate works by ceramicists such as Miguel Arroyo, Luisa and Gonzalo Palacios, Cristina Merchán, Tecla Tofano, María Luisa Tovar, Seka, Reina Herrera etc, accompanied by stellar potters such as Gisela Tello, Josefina Álvarez, Cándido Millán, Belén Parada, Colette Delozanne or Noemí Márquez, among others. More contemporary works were also shown including pieces by Marta Cabrujas, Wolfang Vegas, Doménica Aglagioro, Isabel Cisneros, Ramsés Larzábal and Andreina Franceschi, among others. Each of the artists presented in the exhibition were represented with emblematic pieces and characteristics of their visual and narrative discourse. The exhibition also aimed to highlight the valuable contribution that the Sala Mendoza, since its creation, has manifested through the arts of fire and more specifically, through ceramics. The curator Luis Felipe Farías established connections, dialogues and discursive references between the body of works that made up the exhibition. Link could be found between the Seka spheres and the moonstones of Mara Vitanza, seen from ceramics to universal painting such as that of Josefina Álvarez and her "Encounter with Morandi", or coincidences in intimate and feminist nature as portrayed by the work of Tecla Tofano and Domenica Aglialoro, just to name a few cross readings. The exhibition is presented, without a doubt, as an important occasion to review the sophistication, versatility and validity of this language, as well as the recognition and appreciation it has acquired over the years, since all the pieces exhibited came from private collections. The exhibition was accompanied by a catalog that includes images of the works and specialized texts on the subject, as an important documentary contribution to the study of Venezuelan ceramics



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