Jorge Enciso
Bio
Jorge Enciso is a lawyer and ceramist, born in Asunción on July 18, 1972. A self-taught plastic artist, he started drawing and painting as a child, but it was not until 2014, upon meeting ceramist Julia Isidrez during one of her workshops in the city of Areguá, that he discovered clay and began working with it, and has not stopped ever since, either in Julia’s workshop or in the one he has set up for himself.
His pieces, molded from black and red clay, engobe, burnishes, and sgraffito, carry the mestizo DNA of popular ceramics, deeply rooted in the ancestral ways of the Guaraní peoples, and the forms and techniques brought by the Spanish colonization. He further perfected his abilities in workshops with masters Maneno Juarez (Maneno Llinkarimachiq), Paola Nuovo, Lavra Garay, Claudia Migone, Marité Zaldivar and Karina Garret, with whom he trained in hand modelling, reliefs, and various finishing techniques for the pieces.
Statement
Inaugurated in 1996, Verónica Torres Colección de Arte is an exhibition space at the Shopping Mariscal. Thus, in the epicenter of the paradigmatic heart of commercial activity, experiences also become counterpoints and create a crossroads between art as a proposal as well as an object of sale. Likewise, the space called “Paseo de las Artes” has been hosting exhibitions over these 26 years, allowing people to meet with art while making valuable works of contemporary art accessible, and the artists behind it, relevant to the public.
