Cerámica Contemporánea: propuesta estética y técnica desde la Cultura Chorrera para la obra cerámica

Abstract

The proposal to create contemporary artistic ceramics from aesthetic and technical elements of chorrera pottery demanded dialogue and participation of knowledge which enabled this work to be fulfilled. In this regard, it was first necessary to revise the available technical resources on ceramics in order to understand, from practice and experimentation, the craft processes of construction. Due to the lack of specific data about the Chorrera philosophy, we turned to the Amazon cosmovision to understand the concept of unity that people live within their context of animistic nature. The multiple possibilities that contemporary art has explored took us to the resource of appropriation of the shapes of everyday objects, which were later represented, decontextualized and redefined in the creation of new ceramic whistle bottles, which could be called “chorrera neo whistle bottles”. Within the conceptualization process, the anthropophagite manifesto by Andrade and the cannibal aesthetics by Rojas became the theoretical fundamentals used to represent a contemporary artistic expression with Andean ancestral elements. The present work is framed within the "Lines of artistic research, creation and production of the Faculty of Arts" and that corresponds to the points: 1. Creation and production in the arts and design. 4. Studies of theory, aesthetics, criticism and history of art and design.