ADAM Weismann

Claymoon — Obras modeladas a mano

Adam Weismann es un creador centrado en la materialidad cuya obra explora las cualidades arquitectónicas, sensoriales y temporales de la arcilla.

Claymoon, de Adam Weismann y su estudio, es un cuerpo de trabajo en curso compuesto por obras modeladas a mano, en las que la arcilla, la tierra, la madera, la piedra y los pigmentos minerales se convierten en objetos contemplativos. La serie aborda la memoria material, la lentitud y el lugar, poniendo énfasis en el proceso, la tactilidad y en las formas sutiles en que los materiales organizan la manera en que los espacios son percibidos y habitados.

Material, Tiempo y Espacio

Claymoon es una práctica escultórica y manual a través de la cual Adam Weismann aborda la arcilla no como un medio neutro, sino como una presencia activa y formativa. Basada en tradiciones constructivas vernáculas como la tapia —técnicas configuradas colectivamente y transmitidas a lo largo del tiempo—, la práctica se apoya en una relación prolongada con la materia para explorar cómo la materia prima contiene memoria, duración y lugar.

Las obras se forman lentamente mediante pigmentos terrosos y tonos minerales, y a menudo están enmarcadas o contenidas en estructuras de latón o nogal que subrayan su presencia monolítica y arquitectónica. Más que funcionar como objetos puramente visuales, las obras de Claymoon actúan como presencias contemplativas dentro del espacio, influyendo sutilmente en la atmósfera, la percepción y el ritmo.

En el centro de esta práctica se encuentra la comprensión de que los materiales configuran la experiencia humana más allá de la función o la decoración. Claymoon propone un modo de relación más silencioso, arraigado en la tactilidad, la imperfección y la duración, donde la escultura media entre el entorno construido y los estados de atención, reflexión y pertenencia.

La obra no pretende representar una identidad ni hablar en nombre de ningún grupo. En cambio, dirige la atención hacia los procesos materiales que moldean silenciosamente la forma en que las personas llegan a sentirse conectadas: con un lugar, entre sí y con formas compartidas de imaginar el mundo. A través de la arcilla, el tiempo y la repetición, Claymoon señala las condiciones que hacen posible la pertenencia colectiva, sin fijarla en símbolos ni narrativas.

Dentro del marco de BASPcr, este enfoque resuena con formas de conocimiento que emergen a través de la autoorganización más que de la autoría o el espectáculo. Mucho antes de las instituciones o los sistemas formales, las prácticas materiales vernáculas configuraban la manera en que las comunidades construían, habitaban y se reconocían a sí mismas. En este sentido, Claymoon se alinea con la investigación más amplia de BASPcr sobre cómo la cultura, el lugar y la imaginación social se forman desde la base.

Materialidad en el arte

OBRAS DE ARTE

Sodeisha: Crawling Through Mud
€13,800.00

Composed of six panels in warm earthen red tones of unfired Cornwall clay, the work unfolds as a fractured circular trace spread across a grid. The circle appears not as a fixed geometric form, but as a worn imprint that emphasizes the rawness of the material and its direct relation to the earth. Marks of pressure, abrasion, and sedimentation allow the surface to register the artist’s spontaneous gestures. The work ultimately evokes a topographic fragment or aerial landscape, where the circle gathers this rawness into a form that is at once minimal, elemental, and quietly geographical.

Within BASPcr, the work opens a line of inquiry into how vernacular knowledge is carried through material practice. Earth appears here not simply as medium, but as a social and historical substrate that holds memory, gesture, and ways of inhabiting space that precede fixed borders or institutional forms of authorship.

50 × 50 cm (x6)

Unfired Clay pannels (Prices excl. VAT & shipping)

by Adam Weissman - Claymoon studio 2026

One of a kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate

CM0010 - Ombre Series
€13,850.00

Ombre Fade explores subtle transformation through tonal shift and light. Drawing on the quiet phenomenon of a penumbral lunar eclipse, where the moon is softly dimmed rather than dramatically altered, the work captures a moment of near-imperceptible change.

Through a considered use of clay, sand, and pigment, the surface moves gently from light to shadow, evoking the translucent, atmospheric qualities of watercolour and inviting close, contemplative viewing.

Within BASPcr, Claymoon opens a quieter but essential line of inquiry: how vernacular knowledge organises itself through materials, repetition, and care. Long before institutions, borders, or formal authorship, these practices shaped how communities built, inhabited, and recognised themselves. In this sense, Claymoon does not illustrate identity — it reveals the conditions through which collective belonging becomes possible.

Adam Weismann & the Claymoon Studio are the latest addition to Matiz Gallery’s portfolio.

1230mm x 630mm x 65 mm (x3)

Clay (Prices excl. VAT & shipping)

by Adam Weissman - Claymoon studio 2023

One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate

Green Rammed Earth - Skyspace
€17,300.00

This is a triptych by Adam Weismann (Claymoon Studio), part of a wider series of eleven works. Using the vernacular technique of rammed earth, in which raw wet clay is compacted into a vertical panel, the piece explores the visual and material possibilities of compression, layering, and natural pigmentation. Subtle bands of green and mineral tones create a surface that feels at once geological and atmospheric, evoking soil, horizon, and an abstract sense of landscape. The work foregrounds the rawness of the material and its direct connection to the earth, allowing texture and pigment to carry the image.

Within BASPcr, the piece points to how vernacular techniques hold forms of knowledge and continuity through material practice, linking earth not only to construction, but to memory, inhabitation, and collective relation to place.

1230mm x 630mm x 65 mm (x3)

Unfired Clay pannels (Prices excl. VAT & shipping)

by Adam Weissman - Claymoon studio 2026

One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate

CM009 – Green Rammed Earth Series
€9,300.00

This Artwork is presented as a diptych composed of unfired clay, sand, and pigment, built through processes of compression and layering. Drawing on ancient making traditions and early unfired earth construction, the work foregrounds material density as both structure and memory. Its visible strata evoke weight, pressure, and slow geological transformation, while irregular pockets of softness and texture introduce moments of fragility within mass.

The series reflects on humanity’s earliest relationship with the earth — a quiet meditation on time, ancestry, and the enduring memory held within raw material. Rather than depicting landscape, the work operates as a material record: an accumulation shaped by repetition, touch, and gravity.

Within BASPcr, this work opens a fundamental line of inquiry into how vernacular knowledge organizes itself through material practice. Long before formal authorship, institutions, or borders, earth-based techniques shaped how communities built, inhabited, and recognized themselves. In this sense, Green Rammed Earth Series does not illustrate identity; it reveals the conditions through which collective belonging, continuity, and self-organization become possible.

Adam Weismann & the Claymoon Studio are the latest addition to Matiz Gallery’s portfolio.

1230mm x 630mm x 65 mm (x2)

Clay (Prices excl. VAT & shipping)

by Adam Weissman - Claymoon studio 2023

One-of-a-Kind Artwork with an Authenticity Certificate