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Ana Illueca, Valencian ceramist

  • May 4th, 2020
Ana Illueca

The ceramist Ana Illueca has crossed the ocean. The Valencian artist has taken a sample of her work to the Design Week in New York (ICFF NYV), a specialised fair which brings together around 900 exhibitors and 38,000 visitors.

This way, Illueca proposes an exhibition in which she combines the tradition of Valencian ceramics through clay pieces that she fills with stories. This ceramist brings to each piece stories that connect with the user by their actuality and their particular vision. Concepts made with clay in which, for example, she manages to make a cup not a cup anymore, she manages to make it the way in which a person claims its dignity.

Within this reinterpretation of traditional ceramics we find his pieces of 'The reflection of the Komorebi', made with a decoration technique that the Moors left as a legacy and that is present in the main buildings of the city of Valencia such as the City Hall or the Central Market. This work, based on plates and vessels, speaks of the light of Valencia through the orange and palm trees that fill its streets, and how this play of light and shadow fills the city's pavements.