Sodeisha Avant Garde Japanese Ceramics

All works gifts of the sodeisha group 1981 to newcastle art gallery.
Sodeisha avant garde japanese ceramics. Avant garde japanese ceramics featuring 32 members of the sodeisha group of artists including founding members kazuo yagi 1918 1979 osamu suzuki 1926 2001 and hikaru yamada 1924 2001. Free exhibition in september 1979 newcastle region art gallery hosted the exhibition sodeisha. The auction houses of new york and london may still look to historic japanese ceramics over avant garde forms but the international market is showing promise yellin said. Please see wikipedia s template documentation for further citation fields that may be required.
Otani s ceramics on. The scale of sodeisha works is personal intimate never too big to take in at a single glance. The sodeisha ceramic sculpture at newcastle art gallery still looks as bizarre as it did 40 years ago. Sodeisha was formed in opposition to the mingei or folk craft movement that was the dominant ceramic style and philosophy in japan at the time exemplified by shoji hamada 1894 1978 and also in reaction to the aesthetic of rusticity associated with the tea ceremony inspired shino and bizen ceramics of the momoyama revival pottery of artists such as kaneshige toyo and arakawa toyozu.
In 1979 newcastle art gallery presented the exhibition sodeisha. The sodeisha achievements reveal that avant garde ceramic work does not have to be large muscular and rough. Yagi founded in 1948 the legendary avant garde ceramic art group sodeisha or in english the society of running mud. If i had to name just one potter who brought about a sea change in how we perceive ceramics in the 20th century and whose legacy vividly lives on today without doubt i would choose yagi kazuo 1918 1979.
Yamada hikaru 1924 2001 was a founding member of the extremely influential avant garde ceramic group sodeisha along with yagi kazuo and suzuki osamu in the late 1940s. It maintains a comfortable relationship to the size of the viewer. Rikizo kawakami message a from k k. Avant garde japanese ceramics presented by the australian gallery directors council australian gallery directors council sydney wikipedia citation.