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Goro Kawamoto
Goro Kawamoto (1919-1986) is one of the artists who pursued and expanded the concept of ceramics as an expression. He confronted traditional techniques and values objectively and confronted them with his creativity.
Kawamoto's production is largely divided into the first half, ceramics, and the second half, porcelain. In the production of ceramics, Kawamoto believes that the beauty of pottery is found in extracting and symbolizing the properties of the clay, and he has established a style of directly modeling the sense of materiality and materiality in a variety of ways, making use of the rough surface, cracks, distortion, and strain of the clay to calculate and create his works. In Seto at that time, where the emphasis was on a potter's wheel as a molding technique, Kawamoto's attitude of selecting or developing clay and techniques according to what he wanted to produce was unique.
Kawamoto became independent as an artist with a different production style from his family's underglaze porcelain, but he shifted his production style from ceramics to porcelain while maintaining his willful attitude. Based on his study of Seto underglaze blue porcelain and Chinese ceramics, which were the roots of Seto underglaze blue porcelain, he worked on his own underglaze blue porcelain and color painting, which were different from both. It can be said that this was an act of approaching, overcoming, and advancing the tradition and history of ceramics through his work.
This exhibition is the first retrospective of his work to be held in Tokyo since Goro Kawamoto's death. The exhibition features more than 70 pieces of Kawamoto's ceramics from his early years to his later years, in which he regarded ceramics as a material for expression and devoted himself to its creation.
Kawamoto's production is largely divided into the first half, ceramics, and the second half, porcelain. In the production of ceramics, Kawamoto believes that the beauty of pottery is found in extracting and symbolizing the properties of the clay, and he has established a style of directly modeling the sense of materiality and materiality in a variety of ways, making use of the rough surface, cracks, distortion, and strain of the clay to calculate and create his works. In Seto at that time, where the emphasis was on a potter's wheel as a molding technique, Kawamoto's attitude of selecting or developing clay and techniques according to what he wanted to produce was unique.
Kawamoto became independent as an artist with a different production style from his family's underglaze porcelain, but he shifted his production style from ceramics to porcelain while maintaining his willful attitude. Based on his study of Seto underglaze blue porcelain and Chinese ceramics, which were the roots of Seto underglaze blue porcelain, he worked on his own underglaze blue porcelain and color painting, which were different from both. It can be said that this was an act of approaching, overcoming, and advancing the tradition and history of ceramics through his work.
This exhibition is the first retrospective of his work to be held in Tokyo since Goro Kawamoto's death. The exhibition features more than 70 pieces of Kawamoto's ceramics from his early years to his later years, in which he regarded ceramics as a material for expression and devoted himself to its creation.
Schedule | Apr 22 (Sat) 2023-Aug 20 (Sun) 2023 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Adults ¥1100; University Students ¥800; High School, Junior High and Elementary School Students ¥500 | ||||
| Venue | Kikuchi Kanjitsu Memorial Tomo Museum https://www.musee-tomo.or.jp/en/current_exhibition.html  | ||||
| Location | Nishikubo Bldg., 4-1-35 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0001 | ||||
| Access | 6 minute walk from exit 4b at Kamiyacho Station on the Hibiya line. 7 minute walk from exit 13 at Tameike-sanno Station on the Ginza and Namboku lines. 8 minute walk from exit 3 at Toranomon Station on the Ginza line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-5733-5131 | ||||
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