Group Show – 3 Artists

Kosaku Kanechika is pleased to present the exhibition “Group Show – 3 Artists”. The show features works by Yutaka Aoki, Noritaka Tatehana, and Miwa Kyusetsu XIII, who is presenting his work at Kosaku Kanechika for the first time.

Miwa assumed the family title of Miwa Kyusetsu XIII in 2019. He is highly acclaimed throughout the world for his style that incorporates dynamic and innovative sculptural forms while carrying forward the legacy of Hagi ware ceramics by using the white Hagi glaze adopted by the Miwa family.

This group exhibition presents his “El Capitan” series of tea bowls highlighting the contrast between the unglazed surface of the pottery cut out using a Japanese sword and the Miwa family’s traditional white Hagi glaze (Kyusetsu white). This series owes its primary inspiration to Miwa seeing the enormous granite edifice of the same name at Yosemite National Park while studying in the United States, combined with Hagi clay and ceramic traditions. It enchants with its powerful originality as well as conveying the energy of nature and the long history of kogei crafts.

Yutaka Aoki displays new paintings produced since his solo exhibition “Walking Bride” in June this year. Aoki had the following to say about the show.
“Mixing and overlapping, paintings stand up in a single line, facing and confronting a border. I attempt to carefully observe what emerges and produce paintings to convey that presence.”

Noritaka Tatehana presents his famous “Heel-less Shoes” series, the “Descending Painting” series of works portraying motifs of lightning and thunderclouds, and the “Void Sculpture Series” of sculpture works created in collaboration with leading Japanese swordsmith Kunihira Kawachi.

Miwa Kyusetsu XIII was born in Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture in 1951 as the third son of Miwa Kyusetsu XI (Miwa Jusetsu). He began his studies abroad at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1975. Since returning to Japan, he has continuously created distinctive art that transcends traditional Hagi ware ceramics at the family pottery, Fusoan Miwagama.

Yutaka Aoki was born in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan in 1985, and is currently based in Tokyo. In 2008, he graduated from Tokyo Zokei University’s Department of Fine Arts, and received a Master of Fine Arts from the same institution in 2010.

Noritaka Tatehana was born in Tokyo in 1985 to a family that ran a public bathhouse called “Kabuki-yu “in Kabuki-cho, Tokyo, but he grew up in Kamakura, Japan. Influenced by his mother, a creator of dolls based on the Waldorf education method, he learned to create with his own hands as a small child. Tatehana graduated in 2010 from the Department of Crafts at Tokyo University of the Arts, specializing in textile arts.

Gallery hours Tue-Sat 11 am – 6 pm
Closed on Sun, Mon and National Holidays

Exhibition Duration 15.10. – 19.11.2022

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Location:
Kosaku Kanechika
TERRADA Art Complex 5F, 1-33-10 Higashi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku
140-0002 Tokyo
Japan