Art In Progress
Rafael Freyre
Lima
Altamar Cerámica
Coinciding with the opening of its new Lima shop, Massimo Dutti organised a new in-store experience with local studio Altama Ceramics. With this type of initiative, the brand confirms its intention to care for and improve its customers’ experience.
Giving the customer exclusive shopping experiences is part of the project ArtInProgress project that Massimo Dutti created with the mission of promoting the creativity of local artists from all over the world. On this occasion, the Altamar Ceramics studio were the artists in charge of offering an experiential and aesthetic proposal to all those present at the inauguration of the new shop.
Altamar Ceramic Studio is a ceramics and design studio located in Barranco, where Diana Morcos and Nagib Zariquiey work on individual projects, collaborative projects and exclusive tableware through their online shop or by commission.
The studio was created in 2017 when they both decided to rent a small studio with the intention of developing their personal projects and continue exploring ceramics and its processes. Their studio is an oasis in the chaos of the city of Lima. It is a space for creation, production and teaching that continues to attract more and more participants due to the benefits of this activity, such as connecting with oneself, releasing stress and improving the motor coordination of arms and hands.
In the work of the Altamar ceramics studio, the sea is always a source of inspiration. For them, its proximity provokes feelings and emotions that trigger human creativity, generating a very close bond and a state of balance with nature in a general sense.
Diana Morcos’ first approach to ceramics was in 2008, when she began her training as a ceramist, learning various techniques for transforming clay. For her, ceramics is a tool that allows her to connect with the sea ‘A wise man who never ceases to give me lessons and show me his treasures, which I always appropriate and immortalise in my pieces’. In her creative process, Nagib Zariquiey – whose academic background includes graphic design and sculpture, as well as clay modelling – seeks to explore and manifest states of inner conflict, transformation and the passing of time, through the juxtaposition of volcanic glazes, geological and organic textures, translucent glazes and pigmented engobes.
