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Mexican ceramist Gustavo Pérez makes vessels that are simple, smooth and symmetrical. Their elegance is due to the precision of the incised lines and other markings on the pots. While using the same clay body—sand colored stoneware—throughout his work, the artist achieves a wide range of form and pattern and includes slowly undulating walls beneath the subtly incised surfaces. Part architecture, part mathematical pattern, and part lyrical movement, the sleek ceramic constructions were the subject of a major survey exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City.
Gustavo Pérez is constantly moving, and with each stage of his work he advances and investigates. His works are incessantly experimental. There have been parallel lines, calligraphic traces, geometric cuts into the surface, minimalist vessels, recollections of pre-Hispanic vases and references to other ancient cultures. “There is something distinct about all of these – coherence and synthesis. Material, texture, color and design all correspond in Perez’s works,” writes Alfonso Colorado.
Small details are important to Pérez, as he works through variations like a musician improvising on a melody. On a single uniform exterior the drawing may correspond to the distortions of the vessel. Lines of extraordinary subtlety continue to appear, incised into the surface of the clay. As Gustavo Pérez has continued exploring, line has been most characteristic of his work. The drawing and the structure of the vessel are unified in a more sinuous and flowing manner in the new pieces.
The ceramics of Gustavo Pérez are distinguished by eliminating superfluous details, by synthesis of his elements. During the past two decades he has created a visual language that seems closely aligned with music. Pure in form, with a significant structure, completely abstract and without specific associations, his language of line, the bending of forms, and the definition of the vessel mark his work as a distinctive voice. The form is not just a container or a receptacle; it is architecture. The work is also a support for drawings, which are at once ancient and modern, mechanical and lyrical. Mathematics, symmetry and intuitive sensitivity to proportion are the basis of his work.
Gustavo Pérez’s work is represented in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Long Beach Museum of Art, and the Cultural Center of Contemporary Art in Mexico City. He has been exhibiting internationally since the 1970s.
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Education
1971-73 School of Design and Art, Mexico
Studied with Enrique Rangel, Felipe Barcenas and Martin Lima
1967-71 UNAM, Mexico
Studied Engineering, Mathematics and Philosophy
Museum Collections
Carrillo Gil Museum, Mexico City
Cultural Center of Contemporary Art, Mexico City
Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Höhr-Grenzhausen, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Museum of Art from the Prefecture de Saga, Saga, Japan
Museum of Art, Querétaro City, Mexico
Museum of Contemporary Art, Oaxaca City, Mexico
Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shiga
Prefecture, Japan
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014 Gustavo Pérez, Galerie Silbereis, Paris, France
2013 Line, Surface, Space, Galerie Marianne Heller, Heidelberg, Germany
Gustavo Pérez, Galerie Capazza, Nançay, France
2012 Estación Indianilla, Mexico City
2012 Erskine Hall & Coe, London, United Kingdom
Obra reciente, Museo Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
2011 Recapitulando, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Puls Ceramics. Brussels, Belgium
2010 Recapitulando, Centro de las Artes de San Agustín, Oaxaca, Mexico
Obra reciente, Galería Quetzalli, Oaxaca, Mexico
Gustavo Pérez à Sèvres, Galerie de la Manufacture de Sèvres, Paris, France
2009 Museo de Antropología de Xalapa, Mexico
Galerie Loes en Reinier, Deventer, The Netherlands
2008 Puls Ceramics, Brussels, Belgium
Reunión en la Memoria, Museo de Arte de Querétaro, Mexico
Gustavo Pérez: New Work, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2006 Gustavo Pérez: A Survey of Recent Work, Frank Lloyd Gallery,
Santa Monica, California
2005 Cambios, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Franz Mayer Museum, Mexico City
2003 Cambios, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Galería Artur Ramon, Barcelona, Spain
Galerie b15, Munich, Germany
Galería López Quiroga, Mexico City
2002 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Galerie Handwerk, Koblenz, Germany
Galerie Fusion, Toulouse, France
Garth Clark Gallery, New York
Danmarks Keramikmuseum Grimmerhus, Grimmerhus, Denmark
2001 Galerie Besson, London, United Kingdom
Galerie Ortillés-Fourcat, Paris, France
Galería ARTE3, Léon, Mexico
2000 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Gallery Sjokando, Kyoto, Japan
Gallery Move, Yokohama, Japan
Keramikmuseum, Höhr-Grenzhausen, Germany
Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, Xalapa,Veracruz, Mexico
Garth Clark Gallery, New York
1999 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Cultural Center of Mexico, Copenhagen, Denmark
Museum of Porcelain, Rostrand, Switzerland
Variations in Ceramics, Casa Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
Gustavo Pérez. Ceramics, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City
Gallery Sjokando, Kyoto, Japan
1998 Gallery of the University of Foreign Studies, Kyoto, Japan
Gallery Yamaki, Osaka, Japan
Gustavo Pérez and Koie Ryoji, Recent Work, Matsue Kaikan,
Shimane-Ken, Japan
Gallery Meitetsu, Nagoya, Japan
Cultural Center of Mexico, Paris, France
1997 Escultura y pintura, Juan Martín Gallery, Mexico City
Con la música, Theater of the State, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
Ceramics, International Festival of Biarritz, Biarritz, France
1996 Pruebas y errores, Library of Mexico, Mexico City
1995 Cerámica, Casa Diego Rivera Museum, Guanajuato, Mexico
Cerámica, Manuel Doblado Theater, León, Gto, Mexico
Cerámica, Museum of the Arts, Guadalajara, Mexico
1994 Cerámica, Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca, Mexico
1993 Penúltimas con secuencias, Juan Martín Gallery, Mexico City
Mexican Cultural Institute, San Antonio, Texas
Gustavo Pérez, Ceramista, Alfa Cultural Center, Monterrey, Mexico
Cerámica y Dibujo, Gallery of the State, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
1992 Mudanzas, El Dibujo en la Cerámica, Metropolitan Gallery, Mexico City
1991 Cuadernos (with Gabriel Macotela), Gallery Ramón Alva of the
Canal, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
1990 Forma Abierta, López Quiroga Gallery, Mexico City
Vasos Comunicantes, Carrillo Gil Museum, Mexico City
1988 Gallery of the Veracruz Institute of Culture, Veracruz, Mexico
The Art Center, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
1986 Vasijas, Gallery of Mexican Art, Mexico City
1984 Galería Het Kapelhuis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1983 Sint Joost Akademie, Breda, The Netherlands
Zeeus Kultureel Centrum, Middelburg, The Netherlands
Kultureel Centrum, Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands
1980 Galería Teorema, Mexico City
1979 Gallery of the School of Design and Artesans, Mexico City
1978 Radio Educación, México City
1977 House of Culture, Querétaro, Qro., Mexico
1976 House of Culture, Querétaro, Qro., Mexico
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