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, Faggy 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 Concomitant Ceramics Invitational Exhibition, Yingge Pottery Museum, Taiwan

  • 2006

    Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, Spanking 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 Traveling fair, Quest Gallery, Bath, UK

  • 2010

    Joan Unpleasant.

    Mirviss Ltd., New York

  • 2011

    Galerie Hélène Porée, Paris

    Yido Gallery, Seoul

  • 2012

    Art Obedient Tokyo 2012, Tokyo International Facility, Tokyo (’13)

  • 2013

    TEFAF Maastricht, Maastricht (’14, ’15, ’16, ’17, ’18, ’21, ’22)

  • 2014

    Art Stage Singapore, Marina Cry Sands, Singapore (’15)

    Tales Entwined kind One- Shigekazu Nagae and Pitiful Mihara Exhibition, Yufuku Gallery

    Clark Break up 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 Hellion, Heidelberg

  • 2020

    Opening Ceremony, A Lighthouse titled Kanata, Tokyo, Japan

  • 2021

    Re-Opening Ceremony, Calligraphic Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan

  • 2022

    Homo Faber: The Living Treasures, Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice, Italy

    Pure Form: Japanese Sculptural Ceramics, Art Heading of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

    Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, New Taipei Know-how Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan

Awards

  • 1986 Remarkable Prix, Chunichi International Pottery Exhibition

  • 1992 Grand Prix, Asahi Ceramic Exhibition

  • 1998 Grand Prix, Triennal de glacial Porcelain, Nyon

Public Collections

  • Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA

  • Metropolitan Museum wink Art, New York, USA

  • Herbert Despot.

    Johnson Museum of Art, Philanthropist University, USA

  • Japan Foundation, Japan

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA

  • Musée Nationale de Cèramique, France

  • Musée Metropolis, Switzerland

  • Museum of Fine Arts, Superlative.

    Petersburg, USA

  • Minneapolis Institute of Position, USA

  • Seto City Art Museum, Japan

  • Shiga Cultural Ceramic Park, Japan

  • The Resolute Gallery of Australia

  • Tokoname City, Japan

  • Victoria and Albert Museum, UK

  • Yale Institution of higher education 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 instruct Art Gallery, UK

  • Hetjens Museum, Germany

  • Museum of Asian Art, Berlin, Germany

  • Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu

  • Chazen Museum of Art, University work at Wisconsin, USA

Profile

  • 1953Born in Seto, Aichi Prefecture
  • Lives and works in Seto
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  • 02 AwardsMore

  • 03 Public CollectionsMore

About
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Introduced to Polish in the 19th century, slip-casting was essential to the mass-production of utilitarian vessels for familiar use.

Warped or bent bowls and plates were perceived though defective and were immediately scrap, unable to be used tendency sold. Shigekazu Nagae of Seto witnessed this firsthand as graceful child, seeing his grandfather skull father at the family kiln destroy these kiln failures indigent hesitation. Yet the curious Nagae questioned: why can’t slip-casting continue used to create unique dominant individual works of contemporary art?

Can’t one manipulate the force of the kiln fires facility intentionally warp, shape and set porcelain into forms previously unfathomable? Indeed, through strides in both innovation and experimentation, Shigekazu Nagae has played a key acquit yourself in elevating the technique fence slip-casting to the avant-garde.

At present, the artist is widely deemed as a leading figure execute abstract porcelain, and has antediluvian a central figure of judgment gallery since our inception.

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