Porcelain intervention and enamel – 00046
$1,420
Original porcelain intervention and enamel artwork by Luis Mandiola. Contemporary piece that engages Pre-Columbian America through form, texture and color.
Porcelain Intervention 00046 is a ceramic sculpture in which a human head — formed in white porcelain on a cylindrical base — becomes a surface for sustained mark-making. The face is mapped by incised dashed lines that divide the form into quadrants, suggesting both the practice of drawing from the model and a wider interest in the body as a site of inscription. Dark brush-stroke marks define the facial features with economy and force: crossed twig-like brows, a striped mouth, a face that is both particular and archetype.
Small blue teardrop glazed dots descend the neck and base, introducing a note of quiet lyricism — tears, rain, or simply the trace of a different material decision. Mandiola’s ceramic sculptures consistently engage the history of pre-Columbian vessel forms while subjecting them to a contemporary visual language: the grid lines on this face invoke both ancient cartography and modern anatomical illustration.
The rough, sandy white surface gives the glaze marks maximum visual contrast, and the cylindrical base grounds the head in a form that reads as both column and body. A unique, hand-crafted work by Chilean artist Luis Mandiola.
