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Juan Quezada: The Legend of Mata Ortiz brings together 70 works to chart Quezada’s meteoric artistic evolution, from imitative pueblo-styled functional bowls and effigies in the 1970s, to recent, painterly vessels juxtaposing swooping, curvilinear designs with tight, geometrical patterns – his unique contemporary reinterpretation of historical Paquimé iconography.
This unique art form emerged in the small village of Mata Ortiz, located in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. The story of how this art form came to be is as captivating as the pottery itself. In the 1970s, a young man named Juan Quezada discovered ancient pottery shards in the desert near Mata Ortiz.
21 de nov. de 2023 · Hace unos 50 años Juan Quezada Celado, profundamente apasionado por los pedazos de cerámica que se encontraban al excavar los montículos aledaños al pueblo de Mata Ortiz, se propuso estudiar la técnica de hace más de 600 años, después de experimentar diferentes métodos logro una imitación perfecta.
Jarro de cerámica Mata Ortiz por Jorge Quintana, 2002. Exhibido en el Museum of Man, San Diego, California. Mata Ortiz ha sido nacional e internacionalmente reconocido porque artesanos de la localidad, encabezados por Juan Quezada Celado (Premio Nacional de Artes y Tradiciones Populares 1999), [5] [6] y redescubiertos y promocionados desde 1976 como una forma de arte contemporáneo por el ...
Mata Ortiz. Juan Quezada Celado almost singlehandedly revived the Paquimé pottery tradition in the Piedras Verdes, Palanganas and Casas Grandes river valleys around Casas Grandes and Mata Ortiz. By 1970 he had perfected the making of slip oxide paints, found sources of many different clays, learned how to use tempers to keep pots from cracking ...
Hace 5 días · Without Juan, Mata Ortiz would have perished like all the other desert towns. Which is why people in the area sing ballads, corridos, in honor of Quezada.
15 de ago. de 2018 · Juan Quezada Celado is known as the founding father of Mata Ortiz pottery. He was born to Jose and Paulita Quezada on May 6, 1940 in Santa Bárbara de Tutuaca, a town in the Belisario Domínguez Municipality. His father was a rancher in Tutuaca who herded cattle and raised horses. His mother moved from San Lorenzo to Tutuaca to work in a kitchen.
