Masterclass Filaments & Textures with Alberto Bustos

Name: Masterclass Filaments & Textures with Alberto Bustos
Start: 2025-03-21T09:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-03-23T17:00:00+01:00
Location: ul. Krasińskiego 8 lok. 200, 01-601 Warsaw, Poland

Schedule

Fri, 21 Mar, 2025 at 09:30 am to Sun, 23 Mar, 2025 at 05:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

ul. Krasińskiego 8 lok. 200, 01-601 Warsaw, Poland | Warsaw, MZ

“Self-taught as I am, I never dreamt that my passion and admiration for Ceramics would turn into my way of life, would give meaning to my life.
It may well be that my inborn attraction to Nature pushed me down to the ground so as to be fused with earth, our true essence.
Through “natuRareza” I submerge myself into the vegetal Psyche in order to find out those tortured feelings, product of the deterioration of the environment that we humans habitually cause.
My only wish is that my modelling goes in deeply into human sensitivity to revert the harm we are inflicting on ourselves”
The main objective of the workshop is to model the clay directly with our hands, without tools. In this way we will be able to communicate directly with the clay and transmit our feelings.
With the technique of "launch" we will make textured slabs. Also square, flat and rectangular filaments. Creation of stone textures using pigmented cookies. Application of coloring pigments and glaze, powder and liquid, on the wet clay to do only one firing. We will discover how all these techniques can not only be applied to sculptures.
We can also adapt them to the functional ceramic style. In this workshop I want to tell stories of hope with our pieces, from the most absolute freedom and improvisation, without obsessing with technique.

Workshop program:
1st day (Friday, 21st March 2025)
Video presentation. Trajectory. Technical issues. Questions.
Construction of plates without mechanical means. Throwing technique.
Application of coloring stains mixed with transparent matt powder glaze with a strainer and a brush to generate a double texture.
Realization of several pieces applying the previous processes.
Explanation of the modeling of square filaments by the throwing technique.
Application of coloring stains with transparent glaze in liquid with a toothbrush on raw clay.
Stoneware powder texture technique.
Loading the kiln with the pieces made for drying.

2nd day (Saturday, 22nd March 2025)
Presentation of photos on powder cracking techniques and stone textures.
Explanation of stony texture with pieces of pigmented cookies.
Discussion on the use of other organic materials in said texture; macaroni, sugar cubes, etc.
Construction of a cube using the technique of plates from the previous day and the texture of cookies. Assembly by pressure and hit using two woods.
Explanation of the modeling of flat filaments by the throwing technique.
Application of coloring stains with transparent glaze in liquid with a toothbrush on raw clay. Also powder on wood.
Assembly of filaments in the piece made.
Firing.

3rd day (Sunday, 23rd March 2025)
Presentation of photos on rectangular filament techniques.
Explanation of the modeling of rectangular and flat filaments with the throwing technique.
We will use a wooden cylinder to build different sculptural or functional pieces.
We will apply the coloring stains mixed with the transparent matt powder glaze on wood and with a brush.
Possible variations of the construction technique with multiple cylinders and/or quadrangular wooden slats.
Opening of the kiln and discussion about the results obtained.

Participants are provided with all materials, tools and vegetarian meals every day of the workshop.
The workshops will take place in the Ogród Sztuk ceramics studio, ul. Krasińskiego 8, local 200, staircase VI, 01-601 Warszawa.