Totaneros potters and Francisco Javier Bartolomé Bellón Tudela star in Friday April 18 National Ceramics Awards 2014 promoted by the Spanish Association of Towns of Ceramics to be held in Córdoba, in the Palacio de la Merced.
Specifically Bartolomé Bellón receive the Honor Award of the call in 2014 to meet her figure deserving of this award conditions.
For its part, the potter Francisco Javier Tudela, proclaimed a finalist in the innovation category will face in that category to the Valencian company Vicar.
Francisco Javier Tudela
Francisco Javier Tudela Cayuela manager Alfar Tudela (Totana, Murcia), has become the Murcia ceramist who has taken a step forward in the research and development of new artisanal products with added value that far, experts say , had not developed in the area of ​​Spanish Levante.
An innovation of their product is a step change in the supply of it (through the graphic identity, functional features, design, adaptation to new tastes and needs, or recreating new parts).
In the hands of a specialist in the chemical industry, the artisan combines unique pieces with mixed glazes, oxides and encompassed so far had not conjugate thus to maintain quality of the hand of the vanguard.
The craftsman, using these new forms of painting, iconography plays Murcia scenes, landscapes and still lifes to the essence of the ancient tradition of ceramics continue to linger.
Bartolomé Bellón
Bartolomé Bellon, master potter, has the letter of Master Craftsman granted by the Ministry of Technology, Industry and Commerce in 2000.
In 1999 their pottery was named "Company Centenaria by the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation of Murcia in recognition of its century work, which has contributed to economic and social development of the Region of Murcia. This same institutional body presented them in 2001's "Mercury Prize for the Arts" (Awards for Enterprise Development) in recognition of his craft and business work.
Many individuals and companies have personal capacity artisan pieces;
among others, Carlos Slim, considered by Forbes in 2012 as the world's richest man.
Furthermore, in 1996 during an exhibition at the Louvre, the son of Pablo Picasso, I was amazed by reproductions inspired by the work of Picasso, Bartolomé Bellón, had made in homage to Spanish artist.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana