Joselu Domínguez, from unemployment to selling pieces of ceramics to the Picasso Museum of Málaga and to the Thyssen
He¿s called José Luis Domínguez and he is from Los Palacios, in Seville. From a young age, he liked to paint and sculpt, but he ended up studying to be a master builder. That was how he earned a living until the crisis left him unemployed... Now he sells ceramic pieces to the Picasso Museum of Málaga, to the Thyssen and to shops abroad...
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You can find him in his workshop at all hours... After midnight, he says, is one of his preferred times... There are times when he¿s still working at four or five in the morning... ¿I don't bother the neighbours, I don¿t make much noise, but yes, inspiration must be followed as it comes...". Trained as a master builder, he became unemployed a few years ago. He tried several options: looking for external employment, setting up a studio with other colleagues... It was all in vain. The crisis didn¿t let him get off the ground...
On his sister¿s recommendation, he took up his old passion: drawing and the world of the art, forgotten from its adolescence... That renewal was the seed of the workshop that he now has in Los Palacios. A small family enterprise specialised in raku-fired ceramics, an ancient, somewhat wild Eastern technique, says Joselu... "Raku is very wild. You take out the red-hot piece, you take it out with tongs, you wear a mask, the piece falls, smoke, fire, starts to come out... It¿s like a volcano and you never control what comes out. That¿s what makes it beautiful: how unpredictable the result can be.¿
Today he supplies pieces to the Picasso Museum of Málaga, to the Thyssen Museum and to shops abroad that find him on the Internet... Pieces such as Queen Mariana, by Velázquez, or the mother from Picasso¿s Guernica. Unique works, signed and sealed by him, something that makes him proud... And the best thing, he says, is being in control of his time and his life...
