Mallorca ceramics show: fire shapes Català Roig’s art

Fire changes the colour, surface and volume of Català Roig’s ceramics at a new show in Palma. The exhibition, De la terra al cel, opened on Thursday in the chapel at La Misericòrdia and runs until 6 March 2027. It forms part of Biennal B and the cultural programme for the Diada de Mallorca and the 30th anniversary of Nit de l’Art.

Clay, glaze and fire drive the work. The pieces use stripped-back forms rather than ornament, while the fire becomes an active part of making them. The Consell de Mallorca says the exhibition also draws out a spiritual thread running through the artist’s practice.

Català Roig began at his family workshop, Es Retall, before building a career across ceramic production, teaching and art. His work includes reproducing 4,000 tiles for the bell tower at the Charterhouse of Valldemossa, creating the mosaic at Palma’s Plaça de la Reina fountain and restoring a mural by Lluís Castaldo in the Parc de la Quarentena.

The artist has also received the Benet Mas prize at Marratxí’s Fira del Fang, the Consell de Mallorca Product award, the Jaime II prize and Última Hora’s Siurell de Plata.

The Patio de les Dones at La Misericòrdia adds three Art Palma Contemporani projects for Nit de l’Art. At its centre is Alejandro Monge’s sculpture The Last Nomad, where a motorcycle stands still beside a suspended figure. The work considers how technology changes people’s relationship with their surroundings, balancing new ways to connect against growing isolation.

Room 77 houses Nuevo orden, bringing together Nieves Guri and Marcos Juncal. Guri tears up and rebuilds canvas paintings, leaving their breaks and joins visible, while Mallorca-based sculptor Juncal reworks found materials and objects. The room also presents German painter Anna Belén’s States of Matter, States of Mind, built around the thought experiment — a way philosophers and physicists test an idea before confronting the real world.

Topics: Culture · Palma · Valldemossa · Marratxí · Inca

Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com