February 12, 2008 – 2:01 pm
Wood kiln, building (summer, 2000) in San Cibrián de Ardón (León, Spain)
More pictures, kiln map and woodfiring
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 [...]
January 22, 2008 – 10:03 pm
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 [...]
January 21, 2008 – 12:38 pm
Prensa: El Mundo / La Crónica de León, 13 de Diciembre de 2004
CULTURA: Exposición de José-Antonio Sarmiento
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 que han [...]
January 21, 2008 – 11:07 am
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 when pottery, [...]
January 20, 2008 – 9:33 pm
A philosophical analysis of the anagama-noborigama ceramics of José Antonio Sarmiento
The task of a writer wishing to examine a subject in depth is to identify those significant aspects – or series of circumstances – which enable us to locate the object of interest within a general perspective. This can be done by placing ourselves [...]