MATA ORTIZ BLACKWARE CERAMICS POTTERY POT CHIHUAHUA MEXICO BY FERNANDO GONZALEZ

Description

Mata Ortiz Blackware Pottery Vessel by
Fernando Gonzale
z - Chihuahua, Mexic
o
Ceramic
Height: 15.2cm (6in)
Diameter:
10.1cm (4in
)
PROVENANCE:
James Economos (Economos Gallery), Santa Fe, NM
Property from a Private St. Louis Estate, late 1980’s
*Documentation on file and can accompany the artwork for historical conservation purposes
Description: Ceramic blackware vessel with globular body and high cylindrical spout, displaying stylized feather and plant motifs; signature on base
Provenance:
The subject blackware pottery was formerly in the James (Jim) Economos Collection of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Economos was a known dealer and owner of the Economos Gallery in Santa Fe which offered Spanish Colonial artifacts, furniture, silver, paintings, as well as traditional Native American and Pre-Columbian artworks. The ceramic was purchased and remained in a Private St. Louis Collection since the late 1980’s
. Curatorial Remarks: Near-mint condition with minimal to no identifiable wear
.
Mata Ortiz, Chihuahua, in northern Mexico, has been described as a "small village where magic happens every day." Approximately 450 potters live there, producing technically superb and visually compelling pottery that has gained both national and international attention. The originator of the Mata Ortiz movement, Juan Quezada, received Mexico's Premio Nacional de Artes y Ciencias in 1999, the first northerner to be honored with this national prize. Pottery from Mata Ortiz is noted for its extremely thin walls, masterful proportions, and meticulous decorative aesthetics that account for its growing popularity. This small town, however, has become a center of creative production only within the past three decades, owing to the curiosity, perseverance, and art of Juan Quezada. In the late 1960s, Quezada began investigating the creation of an original ceramic process, experimenting with fire, clay deposits buried deep in the mountain, minerals ground into pigments, and paintbrushes made from the hair of his children. The creative journey of this pioneer profoundly affected a small town and the people in it. In the past decade, the Mata Ortiz pottery movement has burst onto the national and international art scenes. The town now boasts second and third-generation potters who are shaping the Mata Ortiz movement in their own creative and diverse directions. The artists in Mata Ortiz have created countless unique styles through constant innovation and experimentation.
Fernando Gonzalez is among the most innovative of the Mata Ortiz and Casas Grandes potters. Gonzalez prefers working within the black-on-black styles and admired for his signature matte black designs applied on glossy black pottery
. The history of Mata Ortiz and its artistic traditions have become one of the most remarkable ceramic art movements in history.
Cf.
Parks, Walter.
The Miracle of Mata Ortiz: Juan Quezada and the Potters of Northern Chihuahua
, The Coulter Press, 1994 and Braniff, Beatriz, et al.
Ceramica de Mata Ortiz
, Artes de Mexico, 1999 for comparable examples
.
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