Today I went to Sergio Mora and Lusesita’s workshop .
The spaceship (as they call it) is a large, bright space.
It is just as you would imagine a workshop of two artists working in different disciplines.
He is a painter, and she (whose name is Laura) is a ceramist.
In the studio of Sergio Mora and Lusesita
PLOM: When did you decide that you wanted to dedicate yourselves to art? SERGIO: In my case, the answer is easy: I don’t like soccer.
Besides, I’m an only child and I was allowed to go my own way.
I liked reading comics and drawing.
I remember reading Mortadelo and Filemón comics and then copying those characters and decontextualizing them, taking them out of their script, creating a new universe for them.
LAURA: I don’t remember when I wanted to do this.
I remember modeling plasticine at home when I was little and that I really liked it.
At first I wanted to be an interior designer, but being left-handed and the ink of the rotrings don’t go well together and I decided for ceramics.
Not sculpture, which would be the safer option according to the teachers.
Lusesita models clay to end up bringing out something inside.
Under its somewhat naïf façade, it hides its entrails.In March of this year, his work was exhibited in the exhibition “Tapas: Spanish Design for Food”, curated by Juli Capella at DHUB – Museu del Disseny de Barcelona .
Sergio Mora, Lusesita and art for children
PLOM: What was your favorite color as a child?
SERGIO: I don’t have a favorite color.
I like them all!
LAURA: Green, maybe, although when I grow up I like them all.
I don’t have a favorite.
PLOM: Who did you show your first works to?
LAURA: Well, we were in art school and, as your first works are exercises, you show them to the family.
And the family always compliments you.
SERGIO: When I was 9 years old I was given a box of oils and I remember painting a portrait that I took from a picture of Emilio Freixas. I made up the colors.
I imagine that my mother must still keep it.
Sergio tells me that it was his uncle who gave him a box of oil paintings.
Later, he began to teach with a painter, who had another student besides him.
There he learned a little more technique and his imagination began to mature.Then came La Llotja, where he stayed to study illustration: a profession that nobody knew but that is giving us so much joy now.
“As a kid, I remember reading Mortadelo and Filemon comics and then copying those characters and decontextualizing them, taking them out of their script, creating a new universe for them.” SERGIO MORA
Inspiration and superpowers of art
PLOM: Which artist inspires you?
SERGIO: Lately I’ve been admiring the work of Kerry James Marshall.
LAURA: Alexander Calder and his wide range of work and originality.
Before saying goodbye to Sergio and Laura, I ask them:
What are art superpowers for you?
For Sergio, they are secret and non-transferable.
For Laura, they are the key to infinite joy.
They don’t need anything to create because they are surrounded by beautiful things and, besides, they have each other.
I would stay all day looking at the shelves, the warehouse and the works of the students of Lusesita’s ceramic workshops.
And Sergio’s new works.
What he is preparing for the restaurants of José Andrés, the old series, the originals of the books…
So much talent!
Laura (Lusesita is her artistic name) tells me that at the last Art Madrid she sold a lot.
Daughter, no wonder!
I bid them farewell.
I am leaving the ship.
Farewell!
See you soon!
And I go home with a feeling of carrying those superpowers with me.
Text and Photos by Iol Ortiz
Sergio Mora has collaborated with designer Alessandro Michele on GUCCI’ s new Spring-Summer 2018 collection . Sergio’s illustration is titled Amazing Art and is part of one of our most successful limited series.
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