Ceramic Cosmogonies: Behind the Traces of Maria Bofill, Carmen Calvo and Myriam Jiménez

Abstract

This study is aimed at linking and approaching the main aesthetic aspects of three Spanish women artists belonging to different generations of the 20th century who have developed and configured their own plastic and conceptual cosmos in ceramics, and whose contribution to the discipline is of outstanding interest. Bearing in mind the works of Bofill, Calvo and Jiménez, a discourse is proposed that addresses, leaving aside its dimension of mere representativeness to which it has been subjected for centuries, the ceramic fact, its presence within contemporary art with the contribution of women artists and the materialization of proposals that investigate the roots and ruins of humanity. Thus, the symbols and signs are traced as traces, testimonies of their artists, since the gesture becomes an expression and a presence.