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| Shadow Partner by Beth Cavener Photo: Courtesy of the Jason Jacques Gallery and the Artist |
We are fundraising to help the catalog/display/shipping cost of artworks for:
Human and Animal - Breathing Life into Clay
The Vanguard of 21st Century Ceramic Art
Exhibiting Artists
Kim Simonsson (Finland) Beth Cavener (USA)
Stephanie Quayle (UK) Susan Halls (UK)
Yoshitomo Nara (Japan)
The exhibition will show over 100 works and drawings
Schedule
First venue:
April 24（Sat.）– June 20 (Sun.), 2021
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu
4-2-5, Higashi-machi, Tajimi-city, Gifu
507-0801 TEL +81-572-28-3100
http://www.cpm-gifu.jp/museum/eng.html
Organizers
The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park
Executive Committee of the Special Exhibition Human and Animal
In collaboration with:
Maya Nishi, hus-10, Inc.
Email: 2021human.and.animal@gmail.com
hus-10, Inc. 3-15-8 Shimoigusa, Suginamii-ku, Tokyo Japan 167-0022 Tel 81-3-5930-1133
I’m willing to participate and will donate by: PAYPAL
I’m willing to participate and will donate by: Wire Transfer
1. Bank: Mizuho Bank, Ltd. MHBK
2. Swift Code: MHCBJPJT
3. Branch name: Ogikubo Branch
4. Beneficiary's Account No.: 244-4110689
5. Beneficiary Name: Human and Animal Exhibition Executive Committee
Exhibition Outline
In recent years the boundaries between the spheres of art, design and ceramics have become increasingly blurred. Artists in Japan and around the world are reengaging with clay as a medium, exploring its broad and varied sculptural potential.
An artist attracting attention in the US, Beth Cavener exploits the plasticity of clay to create animals with realistically rendered fur and dynamism, as a way to shine a light on human psychology. British artist Stephanie Quayle, on the other hand, creates bold clay forms that vibrantly express animals in motion, focusing on their basic instincts in her search for the ideal human state whilst another British artist, Susan Halls, creates realistic, expressive animals by working the clay, and then adding effects achieved in firing. Finland’s Kim Simonsson creates a world of human and animal figures that incorporate contrasting aspects of popular culture symbolized by tension and relaxation, authoritarianism and ‘Japanese Cute’, or the innocence and the curses of human society. Finally the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara, by switching from paint to clay as a medium, has enabled his distinctive childlike motifs to step out of the paintings into a broader, three- dimensional, imaginative sphere. His ceramic pieces open up a new creative world through a dialogue with clay.
These five artists all utilize the distinctive qualities of the clay medium to express a sense of speed and dynamism as well as exploiting its textural potential, engaging with both modern popular culture and a primeval sense of materials to explore the theme of ‘living’ human beings and animals. The current exhibition will spotlight features of today’s chaotic ceramic arts scene in the globalized world of the 21st
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