Nishimura Yohei
Two Kokuto-Black Pottery Works/Book by Nishimura Yohei
Many artists in Japan have essayed black-smooth burnished pottery, with the most famous being Yagi Kazuo. Nishimura Yohei(b.1947) follows in Yagi's footsteps with avant-garde creations often using mixed media, here being clay and newspaper, the latter being fired and then placed in the tubes. In 'Japan Studio Crafts' authored by Rupert Faulkner of the Victoria and Albert Museum, he writes of a similar Nishimura piece, 'By subjecting everyday articles to the heat of the kiln Nishimura transforms them into strange, other-worldly objects that play on our perceptions of time and physical reality.' Nishimura is one of Japan's most important conceptual 'clay' artists that is known to only museum folks and very serious collectors; this is the first time for a selection of his work to be shown on our gallery and possibly the first to offer for anyone outside of Japan. Such works have been shown in various gallery and museum exhibitions over the years including the Suntory Museum, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Yamanshi Prefectural Museum of Art, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka and others. Nishimura's works are also in the permanent collections of some of the museums listed above as well as The Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris, and The V&A, London, The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo. Additional photos gladly sent upon request.
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