Jose and Aussy established Solon Perfecto Ceramics & Culture in 2020. As a product of the pandemic, it was an expression of living an unhurried life in La Union, Philippines.
Now in its fourth year, the husband-and-wife artists continue to make pottery, tell stories, and create media from their home studio located at the foot of a mountain in a surf town — while raising a family and trying to keep a 35-year-old Pajero running.
The Brand
Solon Perfecto Ceramics & Culture is an art house with clay and words as the means of expression. Taking elements from the eponymous cinematic genre, the brand turns the artist Jose Solon Perfecto’s pottery and artistic process into media that defies gatekeepers and strays from the mainstream.
Solon Perfecto’s proprietors — Jose Solon Perfecto and Aussy Aportadera Perfecto — created the brand in 2020 to champion Filipino culture and heritage, uphold traditional values, and pursue beauty for its own sake in a world of commercial algorithms.
Since its establishment in 2020,
Solon Perfecto Ceramics & Culture has…
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2020: A Vigil Interrupted
2021: Our Glass
2022: Filipino Table Culture, First Rains of May, Elevate Vol. 1 and Vol. 2
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2021: Art In The Park (Sierra Madre Gallery, Mandaluyong City)
2022: In Pursuit of Less (Esikinita Gallery, Makati City) and Sining Tahanan (Sulyap Gallery, Quezon City)
2023: Of The Earth (Galerie Stephanie, Mandaluyong City) and Traversing Grounds (Orange Project, Bacolod City)
2024: Resonance (Vinyl on Vinyl, Makati City)
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2022: Harong (Marikina City), Shop 1335/Mabini (Makati City), El Union Coffee Dispatch (La Union)
2023: ArteFino (Makati City), Bombvinos (Makati City), Putik Friends (La Union)
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Hapag (Makati City), Porch Coffee (Clark Parade Grounds), A Toda Madre (Makati City)
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2022: Shop 1335/Mabini Launch (Philippine Star)
2022: Buhay Probinsiya (Smart Parenting)
2023: Etudes in Survival (The Manila Standard)
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Solon Perfecto’s Terroir Ceramics celadon bowl was included by interior decorator Ram Lopez Vito-Bucoy of Casa Buddha in the President Elpidio Quirino room of the Laperal Mansion, the state’s diplomatic guest house.