Artists – Page 5 – Exágono Magazine

María de Andrés

María de Andrés (Asturias) is a ceramist, designer and sculptor with extensive professional experience in the field of contemporary ceramics. She graduated in Artistic Ceramics at the Escuela de Arte Francisco Alcántara in Madrid. From 1985 to 2019 he developed his artistic activity in his studio in Madrid, moving to Valencia in 2020. He has had solo exhibitions in cities such as Hamburg, Saratoga Springs-New York, Paris, Milan, Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Zaragoza, Ciudad Real, Talavera de la Reina, Puertollano, Chinchón and has participated in group exhibitions in different foreign cities likeBraunschweigt and Diessen am Ammersee (Germany), Carouge, Geneva, Milan, Faenza,

25 November 2024

Agustín Leiro

A self-taught artist and craftsman, he took a carpentry course with Gonzalo Arbutti. From Buenos Aires he went to Chapadmalal, near the sea, with Natalia, his wife, and there they currently live with their daughter Francisca and their cats, Canelón and Ramona, in constant contact with nature, their source of inspiration. Agustín manages to turn into art his continuous and profound dialogue with his environment and with wood in particular, ‘a dialogue that has more to do with the imprint of the tree than with wood as a product’, as he himself says.

24 November 2024

Juan Ramón Martín

Juan Ramón Martín (1958, Madrid) graduated as an architect from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Sculptor and professor of drawing at the Fundación Universitaria CEU San Pablo. He founded the architecture and sculpture studio Kleearquitectura, which he has run since 1988 in Madrid. He has carried out numerous architectural and landscape projects. He won the COAM Award in 2005 for the Navalcarbón Canal in Las Rozas. In 2019 he made the Monument to the Greek Sailors which was installed on the Island of Rhodes, after winning the international commemorative competition for the V Centenary of the Round the World Race.

14 October 2024

Zeynep Boyan

Zeynep Boyan is an artist and designer who uses clay as her main material. She creates abstract and biomorphic sculptures, furniture and other functional objects. Through her work, she explores themes of identity, connection and belonging using the interaction between objects, spaces and materials. Her process combines centuries-old materials and techniques, resulting in unique pieces made entirely by hand. A film graduate, Zeynep has lived in Istanbul, Brussels, Montreal and now Munich. Each place has profoundly influenced her understanding of belonging and identity, which have shaped her material sensibility and her work. Over the years, he has cultivated a deep

3 October 2024

Regina Dejiménez

Regina Degiorgis Jiménez (Madrid, 1984) is an artist, designer and teacher. She runs her own Art and Textile Design Studio Regina Dejiménez since 2019 with which she develops Art, Design and Education projects linked to contemporary textile crafts in the inland area of Alicante. Craftswoman member of the International Homo Faber Guide of craftsmanship of excellence of the Michelangelo Foundation, Switzerland since 2022. Her innovation is based on the adaptation of traditional textile techniques to the design of interior spaces and objects with a personal, organic and contemporary style. For its development, she has created a work methodology based on

29 August 2024

Gabriela Sagarminaga

She studied Styling and Fashion Coordination at IED, Fashion Design Styling at Central Saint Martins in London and a Master in Marketing Management at ESIC. She created a research project on the relationship between different craft techniques and the territory, which she developed at Medialab Prado in Madrid. This residency allowed her to carry out in-depth research on esparto grass in order to understand its significance for Spanish culture and how it is positioned in the economic and cultural market. In 2017, Gabriela de Sagarminaga created Sagarminaga Atelier, a craft studio and workshop that was born from an illusion: to

23 August 2024