This past summer in Barcelona, the city’s Design Museum presented Transgressions, a contemporary ceramics exhibition celebrating the exemplary transformations happening in the world of clay. Ceramics is the art of the four elements: earth, water, fire, and air. Artists working in this medium challenge themselves by exploring and altering any of these elements to reach new effects and share unique perspectives never before seen in ceramic art.

From Tradition to Innovation

There have always been progressive artists working with clay, but the current global trend of ceramicists pushing this traditional craft into...