The Ceramics of Manises

Mariscal draws on the ceramic pieces combining classical references with his visual imaginary. "It's like living in the Middle Ages but using contemporary graphic codes." He understands that cobalt blue, combined with golds and coppers, leads you to a baroque, serious, majestic feeling. And he breaks with that solemnity by using other, much more contemporary graphic codes.

The shapes of the pieces give him information on how to approach them, as in the case of the pharmacy jars. He decorates them with circular illustrations, in which the narrative turns the piece around. This type of drawing explains very well the process of manufacture and realization of the piece, in which the turn is intrinsic to the form. They are pieces that seek rotation in order to be seen, also with references to the most primitive animation. It proposes a game of narratives that jumps in time.

  • Friends


    2025
    Pottery made in the traditional way following potter's wheel techniques and hand-painted with a third reduction firing, decorated in cobalt blue and metallic luster.
    17×40 cm

  • Golden lines and spaces vase


    2025
    Pottery made in the traditional way following the potter's wheel techniques and hand-painted with a third reduction firing, decorated in cobalt blue and metallic luster.
    83×50×30 cm

  • Chicken and Deer


    2025
    Pottery made in the traditional way following potter's wheel techniques and hand-painted with a third reduction firing, decorated in cobalt blue and metallic luster.
    18×36 cm

  • Magranas in Manises


    2025
    Pottery made in the traditional way following the potter's wheel techniques and hand-painted with a third reduction firing, decorated in cobalt blue and metallic luster.
    42×15 cm

  • The Garriris in the pine forest

    2025
    Pottery made in the traditional way following potter's wheel techniques and hand-painted with a third reduction firing, decorated in cobalt blue and metallic luster.
    52×6 cm

  • Infinite rhombuses

    2025
    Pottery made in the traditional way following potter's wheel techniques and hand painted with a third firing in reduction, decorated in cobalt blue and metallic luster.
    40×15 cm

  • Petit Manises


    2024
    Pottery made in the traditional way following potter's wheel techniques and hand-painted with a third reduction firing, decorated in cobalt blue and metallic luster.
    36×7 cm

  • To toast to life


    2025
    Pottery made in the traditional way following potter's wheel techniques and hand-painted with a third reduction firing, decorated in cobalt blue and metallic luster.
    46×10 cm

  • The classic tree of life


    2025
    Pottery made in the traditional way following potter's wheel techniques and hand painted with a third reduction firing, decorated in cobalt blue and metallic luster.
    50×4.5 cm