Mauricio Paniagua + Tony Moxham MT Objects
Mauricio Paniagua (born Guatemala 1969) and Tony Moxham (born Australia 1971.) They live and work in Mexico City.
They work as artists within the design industry, albeit with a focus rarely on regular design problem solving. Much of their work is considered sculpture regardless of function, and their artwork can also be appreciated for it’s design merit and technical proficiency. Their work reflects an intimate knowledge of prehispanic Mesoamerican culture, design, and ritual.
Their ceramic works are laboriously hand-pieced by a crew of young artisans whose skills vary little from prehispanic times. Because of their background in both retail and gallery level design, their artwork is informed by the intersection of the emotional and the irrational with design, the decorative arts, and with production methods stolen directly from the worlds of both commercial and artisanal design.
