Where the unmanifested takes form.
Ismael García Burillo. Forty years of clay, wood and paint.
Stoneware, fired at 1250 °C. One time.
Fired once. Made once.
Handmade in Cebreros, Spain. Every piece carries its own serial number.
Fired once. Made once.
Handmade stoneware, sculpture and painting by Ismael García Burillo, from a mountain studio in Cebreros, Spain.
The artist
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Ismael was born in Zaragoza, Spain, in 1963. His father, a woodworker, taught him to build with his hands. His mother, a painter, put the first brush in them. His grandfather made clay roof tiles in Ariño, Teruel. The ruins of that kiln still stand.
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At nine, he moved with his family to Venezuela. He studied drawing and painting for four years under the master Luis Rodríguez, and later at the Arturo Michelena Academy and the Centro Piloto Luis Eduardo Chávez in Valencia. Surrealism and the Bauhaus shaped his eye. The teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff shaped everything else.
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Ceramics began as a way to support a family and became his most complete teacher. He learned it by asking, testing and testing again. With his wife, Moñi, he ran a ceramics workshop in Venezuela until 2000.
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His studios followed his life: Valencia, then Panama City in 2014, then Madrid in 2016, where he worked among ceramicists at the Pottery Gym and made bonsai pots his specialty.
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In September 2020 he and Moñi settled in Cebreros, in a small house at the foot of a mountain. It is his fifth studio. Its first kiln is called Pulgarcito, Little Thumb.
“Soft as a child, the clay keeps every mark you give it. The fire makes it permanent. People are the same.”
Fired once
Press and hold, with the mouse, a finger, or the space bar.
Thrown on the wheel, built from slabs and coils, carved by hand, finished in tenmoku, satin cream, olive, caramel, Gredos blue, or left as raw stoneware.
Signature bonsai pots
He makes one of each. When it’s gone, it’s gone.
Kurama pots are rock-like pots that imitate natural stone.
Shapes named the traditional way, like Asagao-gata, the open morning-glory bowl, and matched to Moyogi, Bunjin, Fukinagashi and Hokidachi trees.
Accessories
Murals and reliefs
Carved stoneware set on reclaimed wood, made for the wall.
The crack, made golden.
Stoneware fired at 1260 °C, a crack repaired with a gold line in the kintsugi way, framed 28 × 28 cm, 1 kg, signed.
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Speckled stoneware pierced by a circle, on reclaimed whitewashed wood, 23 × 23 × 2 cm.
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Ready to hang, with a signed certificate of authenticity.
Sculpture
Ceramic with an amber glass glaze, stripped wood, metal and concrete.
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Stoneware with metallic accents on an integrated plinth.
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Fine art ceramic sculpture.
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Abstract ceramic sculpture. One of a kind.
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Apeiron 0.618 · Germination in a Boson · Stable Connector in Hydrogen 6 · Beings in Triads
Painting and drawing
Also Quantic Soup No. 1 · Subatomic Particles H24 · Nanomachine-Climber · Waiting for Order in H24 · Mass Transfer in the Higgs Boson · Emotional Charge Ions · The Dramatic Consequence of Freedom
Every painting ships ready to hang, with a signed certificate.
For the table
Tableware from the same studio.
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Shipping to the US
Shipping and careful packing are included in the price.
Yes, fired at 1250 °C and frost-proof.
Yes, every pot.
No. Each piece is made once, with its own serial number. Commissions are welcome.
Certified shipping and high-security packing, included in the price.
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That’s your call. Here is what you get: one pot, made once by hand, fired at 1250 °C, with its own serial number stamped in the clay.
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Commissions
Sold pieces can’t be remade. He can start a new one from its serial number. In his words, it won’t come out the same, but it may come out better.
Opens your own email app, addressed to the studio. [PLACEHOLDER: studio email]
