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Nature, Tradition and Innovation: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Gordon Brodfuehrer Collection
The South Dakota Art Museum announced Nature, Tradition, and Innovation: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Gordon Brodfuehrer Collection, an engaging interdisciplinary look at contemporary Japanese ceramics paired with nature photographs.
Christine Knoke of the Mingei International Museum is the exhibit鈥檚 curator. International Arts & Artists of Washington, D.C. organized the exhibit for tour. Jodi Lundgren, South Dakota Art Museum curator of exhibitions, sees this exhibit as an opportunity to display a rich variety of ceramics styles and techniques for museum visitors and students.
鈥淛apanese ceramicists are so clearly inspired by nature,鈥� Lundgren said, 鈥渁nd the works in this exhibition are exquisite. The Japanese mingei (folk art) tradition of ceramics was a major influence on American ceramicists in the studio pottery tradition. We look forward to the South Dakota State University students and other fine arts programs exploring and drawing inspiration from these works. We also know that visitors with or without a deep ceramics background will experience those 鈥榳ow鈥� moments that we always hope to achieve with our exhibitions.鈥�
Featuring 43 exceptional Japanese ceramists, this exhibition showcases ceramic objects of exceptional beauty made for everyday use. The 55 ceramic works chosen are closely associated with Japan鈥檚 historical pottery centers, and reinterpret traditional methods in a modern context. The almost spiritual link between ceramic making and nature is poetically highlighted by 11 digital photographs taken by photographer Taijiro Ito.
The exhibition provides a dynamic survey of the diverse and innovative practices of ceramic-making in Japan鈥攆rom exquisite flower vases and serene tea bowls to robust platters鈥攔evealing the earthly beauty of Japanese ceramics. This admiration for rugged-looking stonewares derives in part from the aesthetic of wabi鈥攁 cultivated simplicity and rusticity鈥攚hich has been highly valued from the 15th century onward. It also derives from the Japanese deep-rooted love of nature and reverence of the kami鈥攈igher beings, or spirits, that inhabit it.
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The South Dakota Art Museum announced Nature, Tradition, and Innovation: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Gordon Brodfuehrer Collection, an engaging interdisciplinary look at contemporary Japanese ceramics paired with nature photographs.
Christine Knoke of the Mingei International Museum is the exhibit鈥檚 curator. International Arts & Artists of Washington, D.C. organized the exhibit for tour. Jodi Lundgren, South Dakota Art Museum curator of exhibitions, sees this exhibit as an opportunity to display a rich variety of ceramics styles and techniques for museum visitors and students.
鈥淛apanese ceramicists are so clearly inspired by nature,鈥� Lundgren said, 鈥渁nd the works in this exhibition are exquisite. The Japanese mingei (folk art) tradition of ceramics was a major influence on American ceramicists in the studio pottery tradition. We look forward to the South Dakota State University students and other fine arts programs exploring and drawing inspiration from these works. We also know that visitors with or without a deep ceramics background will experience those 鈥榳ow鈥� moments that we always hope to achieve with our exhibitions.鈥�
Featuring 43 exceptional Japanese ceramists, this exhibition showcases ceramic objects of exceptional beauty made for everyday use. The 55 ceramic works chosen are closely associated with Japan鈥檚 historical pottery centers, and reinterpret traditional methods in a modern context. The almost spiritual link between ceramic making and nature is poetically highlighted by 11 digital photographs taken by photographer Taijiro Ito.
The exhibition provides a dynamic survey of the diverse and innovative practices of ceramic-making in Japan鈥攆rom exquisite flower vases and serene tea bowls to robust platters鈥攔evealing the earthly beauty of Japanese ceramics. This admiration for rugged-looking stonewares derives in part from the aesthetic of wabi鈥攁 cultivated simplicity and rusticity鈥攚hich has been highly valued from the 15th century onward. It also derives from the Japanese deep-rooted love of nature and reverence of the kami鈥攈igher beings, or spirits, that inhabit it.
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