Akio Takamori Porcelain Vessel/Sculpture

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Akio Takamori Porcelain Vessel/Sculpture

About the Item

Sculptural clay cup with central human face form and ancillary images characteristic of the work of Akio Takamori (b. 1950).
Takamori is represented by Garth Clark Gallery in New York and currently teaches ceramics in Seattle.
Likely not unrelated to Takamori's frank subject matter and unabashed style, he was born and raised in the home of his father's clinic in the red light district in Tokyo, where he was exposed to the seamier and more colorful subculture of Tokyo. He also had access to an extensive library and art collection belonging to his father that included sexually charged Ukiyo-e prints.
Akio Takamori graduated in the early seventies from the Musashino Art College and then apprenticed to a master folk potter at Koishiwara. He acquired industrial ceramics training which he put to use in crafting functional wares in a factory.
But, moved by what Takamori described as the, "anti-authoritarian," quality of work viewed at an international ceramic art exhibition, he began to lose interest in production work.
Upon meeting famed American ceramics artist Ken Ferguson, Takamori was moved to travel to the US to study with Ferguson at the Kansas City Art Institute where he earned a BFA and later an MFA at Alfred University in New York as well as a residency at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana. In 1993, he accepted his current position in Seattle Washington as an associate professor in the department of ceramics.
Takamori is now regarded as, "one of the most exciting and imaginative artists to emerge from the golden years of ceramics in the 1980's." His work is generally figurative and sensual evincing concerns with familial relations and sexual energy with a strong Japanese influence. His deft handling of form for his vessels and their metamorphosis into expressive faces and frank depiction of sexual forms are distinctive and engaging at multiptle levels.
Takamori invites the viewer to explore his vessels from multiple angles, initiating a pluralistic dialogue with form and subject within an idiosyncratic dialogue of wit, character and sexual provocation.
Takamori's art also calls to mind interesting parallels with the ceramic work of Picasso and Rudy Autio and more recent work echoing Viola Frey's monumental ceramic sculptures along with the more obvious references to his life in Japan..

Dimensions:
Height: 5.25 in (13.34 cm)Width: 3.5 in (8.89 cm)Depth: 4 in (10.16 cm)
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
Late 20th Century
Date of Manufacture:
Eighties
Condition:
Seller Location:
San Francisco, CA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: U1107258615319