Virginia Soto's work Causero is intense and full of imagination and detail in each of its corners. When one is looking not know if the chosen piece expresses the life of plant and animal world, the complexity of human psychology or that complexity simply reflects the boundless imagination of who creates it. It's a puzzle that we respond differently depending on the moment that we have chosen to watch.

The work presented here is the result of years of creation, in which the author has worked either pottery, stoneware and wood, as well as drawing and painting. All presented in these pages are unique, of which there is more reproduction than real, for here we can see through color photography.

Virginia Soto was born in Valencia Causero (Spain). In this city was formed in the School of Arts and Crafts, and specialized in working in ceramics, although over the years we can see his work also on other materials such as wood, paper or canvas. She has worked for years as a decorator and teacher of ceramics as he continued his creative activity in his own studio.

In the early years, Soto Causero used ceramic colors produced especially for the parts where he worked. Here we can see some examples of such work. Larger pieces and minimalist answer to that period, characterized by the use of porcelain as the main base material and the use of metallic colors, bright and earthy tones.

Then there is a transition period in which widens the range of colors and transcripts incorporating plant and human expressions in the forms. Subsequently, it leads into the basic colors, strong, intense applied in Geometer forms seeking to carve wood and ceramic sculpture. At this time, is perceived more intense work in the carving of the figures. One aspect that is most evident is the continued presence of human traits: eyes aligned or scattered in the same space, mouths open, closed or sewn, noses, etc..

From the moment are a series of figures and monographs that adopt a form of faces or masks, or the whole elephant tens of thousands of colors, sizes and shapes that we see here, or some polychrome wood carvings.

Virginia Causero Soto has participated in group exhibitions in various Spanish cities.

The one presented here is an enigmatic work the viewer can spend hours looking at and where he always finds something he did not see and invites you to think.

Paz Villar Hernández