RARE RODO PADILLA MEXICAN ARTIST CERAMIC ART STONEWARE ART SCULPTURE BICYCLIST!!

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Up for your consideration is a unique ceramic stoneware free standing art sculpture handmade by well known distinguished artist RODO PADILLA of MEXICO! Rodo Padilla is one of Mexico's most renowned sculptors working in high temperature ceramic (stoneware). Some of his best known pieces are also made in bronze. Rodo Padilla proudly lives and works in his town of birth Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, Mexico. He lived all his life among pottery and crafts in the workshop of his father and he graduated in Chemical Engineering from the University of Guadalajara, he majors in ceramic materials and design, in Toki and Nagoya, Japan, in addition to design courses in Buenos Aires, Argentina and in Faenza, Italy. Rodo has performed solo and group exhibitions since 1992 in many galleries in both Mexico and the U.S. He has been awarded with several prizes in ceramic design, highlighting First Places in 1992, 2000, 2003 and 2007 in the National Ceramics Award. He also design several sculptures in ceramic and bronze representing the fundamental rights of children, at the museum “Trompo Mágico” of Guadalajara, Jalisco. He is currently the Chairman of the National Ceramics Award and was named Ambassador of the Panamerican Games Guadalajara 2011. Sculpture depicts a chubby Mexican bicyclist he is sitting atop A STONEWARE BASE! Piece shows amazing craftsmanship, read more