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
  • 01 ExhibitionsMore

  • 02 AwardsMore

  • 03 Public CollectionsMore

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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