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Angela Martin-Retortillo

With a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts and a Master's in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she has spent most of her professional career in photography.

Her interest in ceramics began in childhood, but it wasn't until 2024, after an unexpected change in her professional life, that she decided to make it her primary activity. In April 2025, she traveled to take workshops with a ceramist in Slovenia, an experience that marked the beginning of her full dedication to this discipline.

During a demanding personal period, ceramics became a space of focus and balance for her. With a background in contemporary art in the United States and a solid career as a professional photographer, this move towards craft emerged as a natural evolution within her artistic journey.

Functional ceramics

Her creative process always begins with a conceptual idea: what she wants to make and why. She focuses on functional ceramics, creating pieces designed for everyday use beyond mere decoration.

She works by hand, moving away from the wheel and overly perfect finishes. She is interested in organic and imperfect forms, where the mark of the hand remains visible. She models each piece one by one using slabs and the pinch technique, seeking balance, beauty, and expression.

In the context of contemporary ceramics, she champions the beauty of the inexact, asymmetrical, and imperfect: a delicate singularity that evokes tenderness. Her pieces are recognized for their organic forms and careful use of color. Conceived for the domestic space, they provide small moments of beauty and tenderness in daily routines that can sometimes be arduous in a modern world of enormous moral ugliness.

Craftsmanship is the true luxury

At a time of mass overproduction, she believes that objects external to industrial reproduction —created with other timelines, crafts, and qualities— deserve their own place.

Spain has a rich artisanal tradition linked to its regions, crafts, and raw materials. Although in the past craftsmanship may have been understood as a souvenir or a minor discipline compared to art, she believes that today it is experiencing a moment of great contemporary effervescence.

This is a time of hybridization between art, design, and traditional crafts, between past and present. She feels fortunate to be part of this dialogue between tradition and innovation through the creation of everyday objects.

Ángela x Thyssen

This project takes Robert Delaunay’s *Woman with an Umbrella* (1913), a work from the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza’s permanent collection, as its starting point. In it, the figure and the landscape are fragmented and fused in a composition where color is the absolute protagonist.

Inspired by this visual universe, the artist developed a collection of handmade ceramics for the museum shop. Plates, bowls, and platters of different sizes and colors translate the painting into the third dimension through functional and combinable pieces.

The collection champions the beauty of everyday objects, finding in imperfection, color, and craftsmanship a form of contemporary solace and resistance.