Porcelain Sgraffito and Pigments II – Contemporary Ceramic Drawing by Luis Mandiola (00076)
$350
About this second porcelain sgraffito artwork
Porcelain sgraffito and pigments II is a porcelain artwork that approaches the same technique from a slightly different angle. Here the drawing expands more freely across the surface, allowing areas of density and empty space to coexist. The incised lines overlap, open and interrupt each other, creating a more fragmented and dynamic structure than in the first piece of the series.
Porcelain Sgraffito and Pigments II is a circular ceramic work in which a human figure — reduced to a negative silhouette cut from the ceramic surface — appears within a field of dense diagonal lines and blue glaze. The figure is not drawn but revealed: Mandiola removes material from the surface, allowing the unglazed clay body to stand as form against the incised and pigmented surrounding field. The diagonal lines that score the upper half of the disc have the character of rain, of motion, or the kind of mark that accumulates when a surface is worked with sustained attention.
The contrast between the worked blue surface and the pale cream of the exposed clay creates both visual tension and material depth. Mandiola approaches this second piece of the sgraffito series from a different angle: the drawing expands more freely across the surface, allowing areas of density and empty space to coexist without forcing resolution. The incised lines overlap, open and interrupt each other, creating a more fragmented and dynamic structure than in the first piece of the series.
The circular format draws on the tradition of ceramic plate as artistic surface — a format with deep roots in both Western and pre-Columbian ceramic practice. A unique, hand-crafted work.
“Porcelain, sgraffito and enamel. Year 1973. 10.2 x 9.1 x 0.2 in.”
