CERAMICA CUMELLA HISTORY
Antoni Cumella i Serret was a world-renowned ceramist. He carried out a profound renewal of the volumetric language of ceramics. At the start, Cumella focused on the artistic object of ceramics, a field in which he incorporated the new informal research. However, his constant experimentation in shapes, textures, tones, and nuances led to the field of painting and architectural language.
By 1985 Cumella focused on the studio Ceramica Cumella towards the development of architectural projects and large-scale artworks, working closely with Studio PER (Cristian Cirici, Pep Bonet, Oscar Tusquets, Enric Steegman and Lluis Clotet), Enric Sòria, Jordi Garcés Renzo Piano, Paredes-Pedrosa and López Rivera Arquitectes.
The studio undertook its first two major architectural commissions in 1989 and 1992: the restoration of Gaudi’s Casa Batlló (with architect Josep Botey) and the restoration of Gaudi’s Parc Güell (with architects Elíes Torres & Martinez Lapena), which firmly established Ceramica Cumella as a centre of expertise in the field.
DISCOVER ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES
Cumella's work contains a wide variety of shapes: ovoids, spheres, bells, cylinders, and cones, with different thicknesses and widths, which play especially with rotation, but which at the same time contain a great wealth of tones and shades of colour.
FINDING INSPIRATION
Francisco Mangado | Spanish Pavilion EXPO 2008 | Zaragoza, SpaiN | 2008
