On the initiative of ceramic brussels, in collaboration with Modern Shapes Gallery and with the support of the Spanish Embassy in Belgium, the fair pays tribute to a Spanish artist whose contribution has been particularly significant in advancing the international visibility of contemporary ceramic sculpture.
Enric Mestre creates a form of silent, abstract theatre where geometry, light, and shadow shape spaces for the imagination. Trained as a painter, he turned to ceramics and then sculpture, leaving functional forms behind for a refined, introspective language based on drawing and modeling as a “memorandum of possibilities.”
His works, solemn and metaphorical, evoke chambers, silos, arenas, or deserted squares, embodying solitude, memory, and symbolism. With classical purity yet deep emotional resonance, they transport the mind to places both strange and familiar, carrying a uniquely Spanish metaphysical quality.
