• Magazine
  • About us
  • Submissions
  • Advertise
  • Contact
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
No Result
View All Result
Ceramics Now
Newsletter
  • News
  • Exhibitions
  • Artists
  • Ceramic art
  • Editorial
    • Interviews
    • Articles
  • Resources
    • Ceramics job board
    • Calendar of events 2023
    • Ceramic artists list
    • Pottery classes
  • Magazine
Ceramics Now
  • News
  • Exhibitions
  • Artists
  • Ceramic art
  • Editorial
    • Interviews
    • Articles
  • Resources
    • Ceramics job board
    • Calendar of events 2023
    • Ceramic artists list
    • Pottery classes
  • Magazine
No Result
View All Result
Ceramics Now
Home Archive

Interview with Takeuchi Kouzo – Japanese ceramic artist

October 2, 2011
in Archive, Interviews
Interview with Takeuchi Kouzo – Japanese ceramic artist

Takeuchi Kouzo Contemporary Japanese Ceramics

In your career as a ceramic artist, you took the challenge of using white porcelain in constructing complex geometrical systems. Tell us more about the motifs of your work.

I want to make people feel the passage of time over my pieces. When people see the remains of a culture or decayed buildings, they evoke special emotions. I want to express not only the ruins themselves, but also the atmosphere surrounding them and their strong presence. In other words, I want the audience to feel exactly how I felt when I looked at the destroyed buildings and ruins.

In what techniques do you usually work and what materials do you use? 

The pieces are made out of porcelain clay. I make many hollow square tubes with slip casting and compose them before they get dry. After the biscuit firing, I apply the glaze and put them into the kiln at 2264 (F). I use the electric kiln for my white pieces.

image

Time is something you’ve embraced when constructing (or deconstructing) your works. What’s your works’ relation with time?

The geometric dense squares represent man-made buildings, and I considered that the pieces might be able to embrace time if I break them because the decayed geometric construction might evoke us about our far future. Since the color of white shows the lights and shadows clearly and dramatically, it maximizes the pathos and emotion of the modern ruins.

Takeuchi Kouzo - Contemporary Ceramics Magazine

Modern Remains, 2010, Glazed porcelain, 8” x 8” x 6 1/2” – View his works

You are inspired by the Mayan culture. Can you tell us when did you first discover and learn about their heritage? 

I was attracted by the remains our world since I was a child. When I was looking at images of Maya Ruins in the magazines, I felt a special connection with them. I had an exhibition at KEIKO Gallery in Boston, 2007. With the occasion, I visited the Maya Ruins in Mexico, and I was totally overwhelmed. That experience made me continue the Modern Remains Series, but when I first started to make the series I haven’t had seen the ruins.

Do you plan any exhibitions in the USA or Europe?  

My solo exhibition opened in September, in France. I was really looking forward to it.

Takeuchi Kouzo Japanese Ceramics - Ceramics Now

Modern Remains G, 2006, Glazed porcelain, 14” x 24” x 16” – View his works


TAKEUCHI’s white porcelain sculptures are composed of numerous hollow rectangular prisms, some parts deconstructed. Depending upon where the light hits the piece, it can evoke a staircase, a construction site, or a city skyscraper. TAKEUCHI used the Mayan ruins for inspiration and wanted to mirror that same quality of beauty that is affected by time. Knowing that a rectangle is not a shape found in nature, TAKEUCHI used the form further to convey his idea of a manmade piece being damaged throughout time. After constructing the original piece formed by the hollow rectangles, TAKEUCHI takes a hammer to his piece and allows for sections of his work to break off and reveal what is underneath. Like the mysterious Mayan ruins, TAKEUCHI uses the idea of accidents wearing down the original to expose another kind of beauty once unseen. The static clean lines juxtaposed with the rough fragmentations create the energy that can be felt in TAKEUCHI’s work.

By Vasi Hirdo.
Published in Ceramics Now Magazine Issue 1.

Visit Keiko Gallery’s website.

Keiko Gallery feature - Japanese artists

Tags: ArtArtistCeramicCeramic artCeramicsCeramics NowCeramics Now MagazinecontemporaryContemporary ceramicsgeometricalInterviewsJapanese artistJapanese ceramicsKeiko Gallery InterviewsMagazinemodernPorcelainTakeuchi Kouzo

Related Posts

Makoto Yamaguchi: The Philosophy of Oribe at The Stratford Gallery
Archive

Makoto Yamaguchi: The Philosophy of Oribe at The Stratford Gallery

February 15, 2023
The Stratford Gallery
Interviews

A gallery dedicated to Japanese ceramics. Interview with the co-founder of The Stratford Gallery

December 20, 2022
Interview with Dr. Wendy Gers, the curator of Handle with Care
Interviews

Interview with Dr. Wendy Gers, the curator of Handle with Care, on view at the Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics

December 20, 2022
Irit Rosenberg Ceramics
Articles

Creating New Life: Recycle. Upcycle. Repurpose. An interview with Irit Rosenberg

August 11, 2022

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *



Join the discussion

Follow Ceramics Now on Instagram

  • The Cheongju Craft Biennale Organizing Committee announced the competition guidelines for the 2023 Cheongju International Craft Competition. The application period is from March 31 to May 7, 2023.

📍 Read more on www.CeramicsNow.org - https://cnow.site/cheongju2023

@craftbiennale_2023

#ceramicsnow #ceramics #ceramicart #ceramic #contemporaryceramics #cheongju #cheongjubiennale ##CheongjuInternationalCraftCompetition #craftcompetition #craftbiennale #ceramicscompetition #陶芸 #도자기 #ceramique #keramik #seramik #keramiek #ceramiche #ceramica #ceramicsofinstagram
  • Nina Malterud is today
  • Playroom / Changing room / Kinky are on view at Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel Aviv

📍 View the photo gallery & read more on www.CeramicsNow.org

@benyamini_center

#ceramicsnow #ceramics #ceramicart #ceramic #contemporaryceramics #exhibition #artexhibition #ceramicexhibition #telavivart #telavivartscene #陶芸 #도자기 #ceramique #keramik #seramik #keramiek #ceramiche #ceramica #contemporaryart #artgram #ceramicsofinstagram
  • Claire Mayet is today
  • CRMCS #3 – A selection of contemporary ceramics is on view at Galerie Zwart Huis, Brussels

📍 View the photo gallery & read more on www.CeramicsNow.org

Curated by Kris Campo 
Artists: Johannes Nagel, Alberto Scodro, Patrick Loughran, Sien Godderis, Nathalie Doyen, Caroline Andrin

@zwarthuis @krishortensecampo @carolineandrin @alberto.scodro @patrickloughranceramic @doyenatalie @siengodderis

#ceramicsnow #ceramics #ceramicart #ceramic #contemporaryceramics #exhibition #artexhibition #ceramicexhibition #brusselsart #brusselsartscene #陶芸 #도자기 #ceramique #keramik #seramik #keramiek #ceramiche #ceramica #contemporaryart #artgram #ceramicsofinstagram
  • Michael Dela Dika: Shaping Rhapsody is on view at the Berman Museum, Collegeville

📍 View the photo gallery & read more on www.CeramicsNow.org

@bermanmuseum @mcmichaeldika

#ceramicsnow #ceramics #ceramicart #ceramic #contemporaryceramics #exhibition #artexhibition #ceramicexhibition #bermanmuseum #陶芸 #도자기 #ceramique #keramik #seramik #keramiek #ceramiche #ceramica #contemporaryart #artgram #ceramicsofinstagram
  • Katrina Schneider is today
  • Alison Britton: Plattering is on view at Corvi-Mora, London

📍 View the photo gallery & read more on www.CeramicsNow.org

@corvimora

#ceramicsnow #ceramics #ceramicart #ceramic #contemporaryceramics #exhibition #artexhibition #ceramicexhibition #alisonbritton #londonarts #londonartscene #陶芸 #도자기 #ceramique #keramik #seramik #keramiek #ceramiche #ceramica #contemporaryart #artgram #ceramicsofinstagram
  • I Contain Multitudes, the 2023 NCECA Annual exhibition is on view at Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati

📍 View the photo gallery & read more on www.CeramicsNow.org

@westonartgallery @nceca @extremecraft @bariziperstein @jamescwatkinsini4 @britny_wainwright @albrechtartco @kaitarndt @joshua_r_clark_89 @kabaczeski @bethloceramics @corybrownceramics @oestreich_jeff @hcceramics @storytellershouse @virginiascotchie @meguminaitoh @chickensarecuter @creechoftheeast @emmalaceyeveryday @colleen_toledano @yu_chengou

#ceramicsnow #nceca #nceca2023 #ceramics #ceramicart #ceramic #contemporaryceramics #exhibition #artexhibition #ceramicexhibition #cincinnatiarts #cincinnatiartscene #陶芸 #도자기 #ceramique #keramik #seramik #keramiek #ceramiche #ceramica #contemporaryart #artgram #ceramicsofinstagram
Facebook Twitter Instagram Pinterest LinkedIn
Ceramics Now

Ceramics Now is a leading independent art publication specialized in contemporary ceramics. Since 2010, we promote and document contemporary ceramic art and empower artists working with ceramics.

Pages

  • Magazine
  • About us
  • Submissions
  • Advertise
  • Contact

Subscribe to Ceramics Now Weekly

Join a fantastic community of over 12,000 readers who receive this premium newsletter dedicated to contemporary ceramics.

SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE

© 2010-2023 Ceramics Now - Inspiring the next generation of ceramic artists.

  • News
  • Exhibitions
  • Artists
  • Ceramic art
  • Editorial
    • Interviews
    • Articles
  • Resources
    • Ceramics job board
    • Calendar of events 2023
    • Pottery classes
    • Ceramic artists list
  • Magazine
    • About us
    • Submissions
    • Advertise
    • Contact
  • Sign up for our newsletter
No Result
View All Result

© 2010-2023 Ceramics Now - Inspiring the next generation of ceramic artists.

escort bayanescort bayan