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HISTORY
ABOUT THE CERAMIST
IN LA BISBAL D'EMPORDÀ During the last decades, the ceramic production has been the most important activity in La Bisbal d'Empordà, a city near La Costa Brava in l'Empordà (Catalunya). The manufacture of typical decorated ceramicfrom La Bisbal isn't a sporadic fact or a chance. Is the result of a long tradition and the knowledges accumulated along the centuries. The decorated ceramic from La Bisbal is the heir from the old manufactures of domestic utensils of clay. Now a days many people use this type of utensils and the tourists during the Summer stimulated the production of the typical ceramist from La Bisbal. They want to buy it as a souvenir of the region. This ceramic is produced under stric decorative criterious based in images and symbols "Empordanesos" (of the Empurdan region). The Bisbal's ceramic keep the extraordinary knowledges of its history and its ancestral technique who mades it famous and admired in around the world. For that reason recover the spirit of the utensils of clay of the past, for its simplicity for its form and for its decoration patrons. |
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THE
CERAMIST ACTIVITY IN LA BISBAL
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La
Bisbal de La Empordà is one of the most important ceramist center
from Catalunya. The importance of this activity is reflected in her
urban landscape from this city, characterized for the silhouettes from
the industrial fireplaces, and numerous commerces. Handmade, creator,
artist, almost alchemist, el ceramist from La Bisbal is many times the
last step from a long stock with generations dedicated at the ancestral
work to give form at the clay. United forms, artistics, experimentals,
artesans or industries... we can find everything on the larg ceramist
history in La Bisbal.
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