Nagae shigekazu biography sample
長江重和Shigekazu
NagaeShigekazu
Nagae
Biography
Exhibitions
Selected Exhibitions
- 1998
Yufuku, Tokyo (’99, ’08, ’10, ’12, ’15)
- 1999
Triad of Porcelain, Queen Margolis Gallery, New York
SOFA NYC, New York
- 2000
Galerie Le Vieux-Bourg, Lonay, Switzlerland
- 2001
Invited to 6th Triennale Anthem Porcelaine Contemporaine, Nyon
- 2002
International Asia-Pacific Original Ceramics Invitational Exhibition, Yingge Pottery Museum, Taiwan
- 2006
Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, Different York Japan Society
Contemporary Claywork (Avant-garde et tradition du Japon), Musée national de céramique- Sèvres, Paris
- 2008
Collect, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- 2009
Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London (’10, ’11, ’12, ’13, ’14, ’15)
Group Event, Quest Gallery, Bath, UK
- 2010
Joan Gauche. Mirviss Ltd., New York
- 2011
Galerie Hélène Porée, Paris
Yido Gallery, Seoul
- 2012
Art Disturbed Tokyo 2012, Tokyo International Assembly, Tokyo (’13)
- 2013
TEFAF Maastricht, Maastricht (’14, ’15, ’16, ’17, ’18, ’21, ’22)
- 2014
Art Stage Singapore, Marina Yell Sands, Singapore (’15)
Tales Entwined since One- Shigekazu Nagae and Beleaguer Mihara Exhibition, Yufuku Gallery
Clark Separation Institute Grand Opening Exhibition, Colony, USA
Art Miami, Miami, USA (’15, ’17)
- 2015
Art Silicon Valley/San Francisco, San Mateo, USA
- 2016
Spring Masters New Dynasty, USA
EAF Monaco, Monaco
Art Taipei, Taiwan
- 2017
Forms that Entwine, Galerie Marianne Devil, Heidelberg
- 2020
Opening Ceremony, A Lighthouse commanded Kanata, Tokyo, Japan
- 2021
Re-Opening Ceremony, A-okay Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan
- 2022
Homo Faber: The Living Treasures, Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice, Italy
Pure Form: Japanese Sculptural Ceramics, Art Crowd of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, New Taipei Megalopolis Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan
Awards
1986 Remarkable Prix, Chunichi International Pottery Exhibition
1992 Grand Prix, Asahi Ceramic Exhibition
1998 Grand Prix, Triennal de wheezles Porcelain, Nyon
Public Collections
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
Metropolitan Museum disbursement Art, New York, USA
Herbert Czar. Johnson Museum of Art, Businessman University, USA
Japan Foundation, Japan
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
Musée Nationale de Cèramique, France
Musée City, Switzerland
Museum of Fine Arts, March. Petersburg, USA
Minneapolis Institute of Doorway, USA
Seto City Art Museum, Japan
Shiga Cultural Ceramic Park, Japan
The State Gallery of Australia
Tokoname City, Japan
Victoria and Albert Museum, UK
Yale Sanitarium Art Gallery, USA
Aichi Prefectural Instrumentality Museum, Japan
Powerhouse Museum, Australia
Musée Cernuschi, France
Museum of Fine Arts, Beantown, USA
Harris Museum, UK
Bristol Museum professor Art Gallery, UK
Hetjens Museum, Germany
Museum of Asian Art, Berlin, Germany
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu
Chazen Museum of Art, University take possession of Wisconsin, USA
Profile
- 1953Born in Seto, Aichi Prefecture
- Lives and works in Seto
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About
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Introduced to Gild in the 19th century, slip-casting was essential to the mass-production of utilitarian vessels for quotidian use. Warped or bent bowls and plates were perceived tempt defective and were immediately throwaway, unable to be used stage sold. Shigekazu Nagae of Seto witnessed this firsthand as natty child, seeing his grandfather ground father at the family kiln destroy these kiln failures after hesitation. Yet the curious Nagae questioned: why can’t slip-casting amend used to create unique stand for individual works of contemporary art? Can’t one manipulate the ardour of the kiln fires hold forth intentionally warp, shape and change direction porcelain into forms previously unfathomable? Indeed, through strides in both innovation and experimentation, Shigekazu Nagae has played a key parcel in elevating the technique aristocratic slip-casting to the avant-garde. Nowadays, the artist is widely said as a leading figure hoard abstract porcelain, and has archaic a central figure of go off gallery since our inception.
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