The Garriris

Works 2024-2025

"The garriris were born in the late sixties. I was about eighteen years old and I drew and drew, as always, compulsively. I loved to stain blank pages with pen, pencil or nib, watercolors or colored markers. They were born suddenly, almost without realizing it. I started to draw and I did it in two ways. The first one I called Tomar Apuntes, I would stand at the kitchen table or in front of any object and I would draw it. They were drawings of what reality was like. The balconies, my sister's nose, the slippers, the fridge and the Turmix.

The other was Memory Notes, invented drawings, drawing automatically, without thinking, letting yourself go. Sometimes they were exercises of making lines, lines and dots, lines, straight lines, parallels, wefts, spirals, dots, big dots and things like that. That's how the garriris were born. In the midst of pages with stripes, tables and lamps, invented carpets and coffee cups, little mice, little characters that jumped over the kitchen benches and bathed in the soup ducks and hid in the refrigerator. They were uncontrollable. They were born suddenly."
Javier Mariscal

Cerámica Manises

Works 2024-2025

Pieces made in the traditional way in Manises, following the techniques of the potter's wheel. Unique works, hand painted by Javier Mariscal, with a third firing in reduction, decorated in cobalt blue and metallic luster.

The pieces are born from a meeting with the artisan Arturo Mora, who prepares the pieces with forms that follow the generations and date back to Persian times.

  • The Classic Tree of Life


    2025
    Ceramics produced in Manises
    24×32 cm

  • Chicken and Deer


    2025
    Ceramics produced in Manises
    36×18 cm

  • The Garriris in El Pinar


    2025
    Ceramics produced in Manises
    40×6 cm