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Lot Essay
As an abstract sculpture or as a functional vase, this fascinating work reflects Kiyomizu's architectural training at Waseda University, Tokyo and projects a stately facade that belies its actual size. The thin slabs of clay that form the triangular openings curve slightly under high-temperature firing in an electric kiln, softening the otherwise geometric structure and adding a playful quality to the piece.
Kiyomizu began his career as the Grand Prize winner in the Asahi Ceramic Art Exhibition of 1983 and his career has flourished with many fine group and solo shows in Japan. In April 2001 he exhibited at the Takashimaya Department Store, Nihonbashi, Tokyo. His work is included in the collections of the British Museum, London, the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, among others.
For a similar work, Hollow Sculpture, made in 1990, see Frederick Baekeland and Robert Moes, Modern Japanese Ceramics in American Collections, exh. cat. (New York: Japan Society, Inc. 1993), no. 119, p. 190.
Kiyomizu began his career as the Grand Prize winner in the Asahi Ceramic Art Exhibition of 1983 and his career has flourished with many fine group and solo shows in Japan. In April 2001 he exhibited at the Takashimaya Department Store, Nihonbashi, Tokyo. His work is included in the collections of the British Museum, London, the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, among others.
For a similar work, Hollow Sculpture, made in 1990, see Frederick Baekeland and Robert Moes, Modern Japanese Ceramics in American Collections, exh. cat. (New York: Japan Society, Inc. 1993), no. 119, p. 190.