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Exhibition: Winter Light, Galleri Sigma (Sweden)

Picturs of the exhibition, Flickr (ArtCeramics): Whinter Light

Crític about this exhibition: Smålandsposten

Presentation at the exhibition “Reversibles” opening

By Abraham Rubio
On the occasion of his exhibition REVERSIBLES: Object-Landscapes, held at the Madrid gallery “Cuatro Diecisiete”
(English translation: Denise Phelps)

To introduce José Antonio Sarmiento at the Cuatro Diecisiete gallery is an honour. Firstly because to be able to speak of an artist with integrity is a privilege, and secondly because it is a [...]

The Kiln: Anagama-Noborigama

By María Jesús Sarmiento
José Antonio Sarmiento is known in the world of contemporary ceramics as one of those artists who have specialised in wood firing using kilns at high temperatures. These kilns, called anagama or noborigama in Japanese, are the heritage of a pottery tradition which died out following the industrial revolution, but which have [...]

White Poplar

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Landscapes of the Paramo


La materia consagrada al fuego

La cerámica es -en la Historia del Arte- un género hecho sin pretensiones, y refleja el gusto de cada época. En la cerámica se manifiestan tanto una larga tradición de libertad artística que no busca el lujo como la larga tradición de un oficio que se repite sobre sí mismo: de los griegos a los [...]

Reversibles


Crítica sobre la exposición Yakishime

Prensa: El Mundo / La Crónica de León, 13 de Diciembre de 2004
CULTURA: Exposición de José-Antonio Sarmiento, “Cerámicas/Yakishime”

GESTOS DE TIERRA Y FUEGO
por Javier Hernando
La cerámica ha pasado en el mundo contemporáneo a integrarse, como otras muchas técnicas y disciplinas, en el ámbito de la creación artística. Y no me refiero tanto a los artistas [...]

Landscape-Objects

The type of material and the creative processes involved do not determine final artistic quality; thus, something formed from the most impoverished, basic materials can radiate intense poetry, whilst another produced using recognised techniques and the highest quality materials can lack even the slightest whisper of art. It was in the twentieth century [...]

Landscapes & Spheres