Objet / Kyoto / Akiyama Yo
Objet by Kyoto's Akiyama Yo
Akiyama Yo (1953-) is a major figure in contemporary Japanese ceramics. His work is not in the functional vessel realm nor that of the Tea world. It is dark, mysterious, and unlike anything seen since the days of Yagi Kazuo. Yagi was Akiyama's teacher at Kyoto City University of Art (where Akiyama is now a professor) and instilled in him a sense of dynamic forms and the fondness for black objets. Akiyama finds his inspiration in fact from objet trouve and we can see that here in this sleek vibrant elliptical form. It sits on a woven fiber ring like old Sueki pots and can be placed down at many angles that differ from the one pictured here. The outside is like a rock while the inside has fissures and crevices that Akiyama creates with his blow torch. Akiyama's works have been exhibited worldwide, he's won major awards, like the Suntory Award, the Kyoto Prefecture Culture Award, and the Japan Ceramic Society Award among a list of many others, and his work is represented in the National Museums in Kyoto and Osaka, Faenza International Ceramics Museum. Italy, and the V&A Museum, U.K. 29.3cm.long, 21.8cm.deep, and 12.5cm. tall, signed y.a. on the back, with a signed box. Akiyama makes mostly large installations and only makes about half a dozen works this size each year.
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