Hayashi Yasuo Ceramic Sculpture, “Sakuhin”
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Directory: Artists: Ceramics: Pottery: Pre 2000: Item # 1475242
Directory: Artists: Ceramics: Pottery: Pre 2000: Item # 1475242
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A playful sculpture which challenges the viewers perception by Hayashi Yasuo enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled simply Sakuhin (work). It is 12.5 x 9 x 12.5 cm and in perfect condition. According to a description of a similar work in the collection of the Met: Hayashi’s series of black and gray coil-built trompe l’oeil “boxes,” a group that was inspired by his experience flying without lights at night as a kamikaze pilot... this work presents new ways of looking at three-dimensional forms. Hayashi trained in the Japanese style of painting prior to World War II. After the war he became fascinated by avant-garde Western artists, including Pablo Picasso, whose work influenced his early ceramics. He then developed the spare, abstract style that characterizes his mature art. The artist created this piece’s surface patterning by masking certain areas and using an atomizer of his own design to spray glaze onto the stoneware before firing.
Hayashi Yasuo was born in Kyoto in 1928, son of a potter. He began to study traditional painting in 1940, but his studies were interrupted by the Second World War. Folowing the conflict and discharge from the military, he began making pottery, helping to found the Shikokai ceramic society of avant-garde ceramicists in 1947. His artistic career is daunting, and much too long to put into this brief introduction including many awards both domestic and abroad (Italy, France, Portugal, Canada, Australia, New Zealand…). Also he has been the focus of solo exhibitions in some of the most important galleries throughout the Japanese archipelago as well as the United States, Australia and Germany. He is held in the collection of the Museum of Art & Design, New York, Everson Museum of Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, National Gallery of Australia, National Ceramic Museum Sevres in France, Vallauris Ceramic Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Faenza International Ceramics Museum, Museum of Decorative Art, Prague, Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Seoul Metropolitan Museum in South Korea, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, National Museum of Art, Osaka, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art and Museum of Contemporary Ceramics in Shigaraki among many others.
Hayashi Yasuo was born in Kyoto in 1928, son of a potter. He began to study traditional painting in 1940, but his studies were interrupted by the Second World War. Folowing the conflict and discharge from the military, he began making pottery, helping to found the Shikokai ceramic society of avant-garde ceramicists in 1947. His artistic career is daunting, and much too long to put into this brief introduction including many awards both domestic and abroad (Italy, France, Portugal, Canada, Australia, New Zealand…). Also he has been the focus of solo exhibitions in some of the most important galleries throughout the Japanese archipelago as well as the United States, Australia and Germany. He is held in the collection of the Museum of Art & Design, New York, Everson Museum of Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, National Gallery of Australia, National Ceramic Museum Sevres in France, Vallauris Ceramic Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Faenza International Ceramics Museum, Museum of Decorative Art, Prague, Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Seoul Metropolitan Museum in South Korea, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, National Museum of Art, Osaka, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art and Museum of Contemporary Ceramics in Shigaraki among many others.
