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Miquel Barcelo: Terra Ignis

By (author) Miquel Barcelo

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This book, published to accompany the recent â€˜Works of Fireâ€™ exhibition at the CÃ©ret Museum of Modern Art, presents Miquel BarcelÃ³â€™s ceramics work. Created in Majorca in a former tilery and brickyard transformed into a workshop, the terracotta figures are damaged or disturbed by the introduction of bricks in the still-fresh clay, which humanizes their familiar forms. The self-portrait is a recurrent theme: eyes and mouth engraved into vases, and amphorae in shapes inherited from Antiquity; skulls and heads explicitly evoke the idea of vanity, an ever-present theme in BarcelÃ³â€™s work, which appears in the fractures, cracks, and swelling that the clay undergoes before or during firing. Apart from the self-portraits, there are emanations of the animal or plant world, also disturbed by the bricks which come to inhabit or destroy them. Rosebuds bloom, fish live and fossilize, bricks form secret cavities. These spectacular works owe their presence to their apparent fragility as well as to their life force, and the struggle and dramas they welcome. All BarcelÃ³â€™s themes are present in his ceramic works. As ever, the passage of time and death are expressed in the most fragile and durable way.