The Unicaja Foundation Cultural Center in Ronda inaugurates the exhibition 'From the Pottery to the Workshop, from Clay to Fire'

Málaga/The ceramic craftsmanship from the Art Collection of the Unicaja Foundation features prominently in the exhibition From the Pottery to the Workshop, from Clay to Fire, which displays over fifty ceramic pieces ranging from the 1st to the 21st centuries at the Unicaja Foundation Cultural Center in Ronda.

The Head of Visual Arts at the Unicaja Foundation, Emilia Garrido, presented this exhibition on Tuesday, which offers a journey through the various creative, utilitarian, and aesthetic expressions of ceramics. Originating from venues such as the Unicaja Foundation Museum of Popular Arts and Customs in Málaga, the Unicaja Foundation Craftsmanship Award, or the Unicaja Foundation Visual Arts Contest, it showcases the diversity and richness of each perspective that this material takes on through human creativity and utility.

Among the pieces in the exhibition, highlights include a Roman amphora from the 1st century and a caliphal-era oil lamp dated between the 10th and 11th centuries, to more linear and conceptual works by contemporary masters like MP & MP Rosado Garcés in pieces such as Heavier than Air and the geometric plasticity of the figurative buildings articulated by José Emilio Cuerda in his three-dimensional Bottle-city.

The exhibition also reveals the delicate craftsmanship of flambeaus and gutters from Málaga buildings of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the refined organicism of modernist decorative plates, or the quaint and popular beauty of Andalusian traditional clay figures depicting bandits, smugglers, or majas, created by firms like that of the Málaga sculptor Salvador Gutiérrez de León.

With this exhibition, the Unicaja Foundation continues to promote and enhance a significant section of its cultural and artistic legacy, making it available to the public with the aim of providing them with an access point to the history of art and culture.

The exhibition From the Pottery to the Workshop, from Clay to Fire. Tradition and Renewal of Ceramic Arts and Crafts in the Unicaja Foundation Art Collection can be visited until October 19 at the Unicaja Foundation Cultural Center in Ronda (Sor Ángela de la Cruz Street) from Monday to Saturday from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM and from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM, and on Sundays and holidays from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM.