Sculptural Forms and Ceramic Murals

Eduardo Andaluz is an Argentine painter born in Olivos in 1946. His training and work are primarily focused on ceramics. From 1960 to 1965, he studied at the National School of Ceramics in Buenos Aires. In 1965, he attended the Fine Arts Promotion Association, and from 1967 to 1969, he taught ceramics in his hometown.

In 1969, he received a scholarship from the Italian government to study Art History at the University of Perugia. He lived for some time in Rome, where he worked with the Form Factory group. Since then, he has traveled and lived in various places: Düsseldorf in 1972, Paris and Crete in 1973, and in 1975 in Pondicherry (India). He has created numerous murals, especially in Gran Canaria, where he settled permanently in 1976.

In 1981, he founded and directed the Ceramic Art Center of the Canary Islands, and in 1983 he was elected a member of the International Academy of Ceramics in Geneva.

His sculpture, based on ceramic techniques —using fired earths, slips, oxides— or other materials such as steel and iron, draws from primitive, elemental, and totemic forms, with a wide range of textures.

For him, expression chooses the material, and the material chooses the expression; the relationship between the two is both fundamental and constantly evolving. Andaluz’s sculptures convey an evocative world of inner forms that develop a symphony of textures, colors, shapes, and spaces. Ultimately, he seeks to captivate the viewer with striking contrasts, configurations, and complexities.