Claudio
Casanovas (Spain)
Claudi Casanovas (born 1956 in Barcelona)
is one of the most elemental of ceramic artists, someone who expresses
that particular Catalan spirit of material and process, an alchemy
of clay and water, a "register of fire" as he has put
it. This approach may be highly visceral, but he is not concerned
with any direct evocation of geology and terrain. These are independent
objects, and ones that test and celebrate the purest qualities of
this fired earth --the flux of the materials, given permanence in
an art of simplicity and power.
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