It is said that all passion borders on chaos. We also know that order is a monologue, while disorder is a dialogue. The Suro collection is the confirmation of that multiplied dialogue between several actors, of course the collector, the artists and the artisans; also, the materials and the time, the years in which relationships of collaboration, work, learning and friendship have been forged.
Walter Benjamin says that in a collection it is the collector who speaks, and that in the end he speaks only of himself, of his enigmatic relationship with possession, of melancholy but above all of the tension that objects, his greatest pleasure, provoke in his soul. But what can we say about a collection that brings together in a specific space, in addition to passion and urgency, the physical presence of the authors, the hands, the kilns; the masses that take precise shapes and reveal meanings with color. Because like any art collection, the Suro Collection has been formed by acquisitions, exchanges and discoveries, but it has the singular characteristic that a great part of its pieces are forged in its entrails, it is there where creation takes place, where the original clay is amalgamated and transformed.
The Cerámica Suro factory began in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, Mexico in 1951. It was in the nineties when Luis Miguel and Jose Noé Suro began to work hand in hand with visual artists to produce pieces whose formal solutions are valued for maintaining and following traditional ceramic techniques, but also for innovating and including other crafts in addition to pottery. Appreciating the rich variety of workshops in the area, we have ventured into the use of materials as diverse as bronze, aluminum, fiberglass, blown glass, wood, steel, among others. This collaborative work has had different destinations in different museums and collections in several countries; at the same time, a contemporary art collection of its own has been formed.
In this way, Cerámica Suro has become an extraordinary reference in the national contemporary art scene.
Precise coordinates, a specific place based in a specific city, but which is talked about in different latitudes. The collector's disorder underlines the presence of chance and destiny: Cerámica Suro has become an almost mythical destination for artists, where, it is rumored, it is possible to materialize any desire.
Curator: Viviana Kuri
Artists: Ghada Amer, Marco Arce, Vanessa Beecroft, Alma Berrow, Fernanda Brunet, Amelia Butcher, Miguel Calderón, Nathalie Campion, Clara Cebrian, Eduardo Cervantes, Noemie Couronne, Jesus Crespo, Jose Dávila, Marcel Dzama, Fabien Cappello & Gabriel Rico, Liz Craft, Alejandro García Contreras, Gil Garea, Paul Gellman, Thomas Glassford, Cristóbal Gracia, Jeff Gibbons, Christabel MacGreevy, Cynthia Gutiérrez, Daniel Guzmán, Moises Hernández, Leiko Ikemura, Robert Janitz, JIS, Klara Kristalova, Gabriel Kuri, Jim Lambie, Magali Lara, Rodrigo Lara, Gonzalo Lebrija, Cecilia León de la Barra, Mónica Leyva, Atelier Van Lieshout, Paty Ló, Lila de Magalhaes, Yeni Mao, Jorge Méndez Blake, Nihura Montiel, Renata Morales, Milena Muzquiz, Jorge Pardo, Renata Petersen, Sara C. Pereyra, Paulo Pjota, Ana Luisa Rebora, Gabriel Rico, Luiz Roque, Giles Round, SANGREE, Eduardo Sarabia, David Scher, Yutaka Sone, Martin Soto Climent, Cerámica Suro, Luis Miguel Suro, Stephanie Temma, Mario García Torres, Emanuel Tovar, Urara Tsuchiya, Roberto Turnbull, Germán Venegas
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