about our artists
MATAMUA
Matamúa is a design workshop where artistic ceramic objects are created by owners Micaela Caplan and Vanessa Sorrentino. The shop also serves as a school for those aspiring to learn how to work with ceramics.
Matamúa is the brainchild of Micaela Caplan. She studied the techology of ceramic in the First Municipal Ceramics School in Buenos Aires, following with classes and workshops at the National University of Arts (IUNA), while also completing a Bachalaureate of Arts degree at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), from where she graduated. Meanwhile, she found that her passion for ceramics was divided between creating and teaching the craft.
The inspiration for Matamúa came while waiting at the dentist's office where a reproduction of the work Mata Mua (In Olden Times, or Once Upon A Time) by Paul Gaugin sparked the idea to create a line of jewelry and home accessories with vibrant colors and geometrical figures and shapes. It's the year 2002 and Matamúa's officially exhibits its new line in the fair "Código País," a design event held yearly in Buenos Aires at which many seasoned as well as new artisans show their ware.
Vanessa Sorrentino comes into the formula in 2007, as a student of Micaela Caplan's whose intensivity and love for the process of creating with ceramics impresses her teacher. As business partners, Micaela and Vanessa redefine the direction of the company, opening their workshop to more students, establishing a showroom and participating in other shows that will increase their presence not only within the Argentine, but the foreign markets as well.
Gaugin's artwork, Mata Mua, depicts two women standing in first plane with a great tree behind them. Call it destiny, perhaps, but when you visit the Lemos Street studio of Matamúa you are likely to find Vanessa and Micaela working diligently while an enormous tree, with its roots spreading towards the studio, reinforces the foundation of a story that just begins. .
Matamúa is the brainchild of Micaela Caplan. She studied the techology of ceramic in the First Municipal Ceramics School in Buenos Aires, following with classes and workshops at the National University of Arts (IUNA), while also completing a Bachalaureate of Arts degree at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), from where she graduated. Meanwhile, she found that her passion for ceramics was divided between creating and teaching the craft.
The inspiration for Matamúa came while waiting at the dentist's office where a reproduction of the work Mata Mua (In Olden Times, or Once Upon A Time) by Paul Gaugin sparked the idea to create a line of jewelry and home accessories with vibrant colors and geometrical figures and shapes. It's the year 2002 and Matamúa's officially exhibits its new line in the fair "Código País," a design event held yearly in Buenos Aires at which many seasoned as well as new artisans show their ware.
Vanessa Sorrentino comes into the formula in 2007, as a student of Micaela Caplan's whose intensivity and love for the process of creating with ceramics impresses her teacher. As business partners, Micaela and Vanessa redefine the direction of the company, opening their workshop to more students, establishing a showroom and participating in other shows that will increase their presence not only within the Argentine, but the foreign markets as well.
Gaugin's artwork, Mata Mua, depicts two women standing in first plane with a great tree behind them. Call it destiny, perhaps, but when you visit the Lemos Street studio of Matamúa you are likely to find Vanessa and Micaela working diligently while an enormous tree, with its roots spreading towards the studio, reinforces the foundation of a story that just begins. .
