Luciano Giménez
Bio
Luciano studied Industrial Design and Visual Arts at the UNC and trained as a draftsman and ceramicist through both formal and informal learning. He has worked with drawing for over 20 years and with ceramics for the past 15, producing murals, sculptural works, and tableware pieces. His practice explores the material and formal possibilities of local clay—the same clay used by the brick manufacturing industry in the city of Córdoba—with the particular premise of working at a larger scale, unusual within the local ceramic tradition. He is interested in showing how a material and an infrastructure designed for industrial production can lead to very different outcomes, demonstrating the possibility of building large-scale pieces with a clay typically used for serial objects such as bricks. His forms emerge from exploring the logic of the material itself and the rhythm of the process—its humidity, structure, possibilities, and limitations—in a practice that evokes geological formations, landscapes, and animal architectures.
Statement
I work with local clay from Córdoba, the same material used by the brick manufacturing industry. I am interested in shifting this material and its productive logic into other territories, exploring its formal and material possibilities at a scale that is unusual within local ceramics. My pieces emerge from closely observing the behavior of clay—its humidity, structure, and limits—and from a slow, almost meditative process of making. Through this approach, forms appear that evoke geological formations, landscapes, and animal architectures such as nests, termite mounds, or structures shaped by wind and water.
