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Forms in Succession #11

2010

Nagae Shigekazu

(Japanese, b. 1953)
Culture
Japan, Heisei period (1989–2019)
Medium
porcelain with white trailing glaze
Measurements
Overall: 35.6 x 47 x 52.1 cm (14 x 18 1/2 x 20 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2023.39
Copyright
Copyright
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

After watching his father and grandfather destroy unsellable wares at the family kiln, Nagae began to investigate and experiment with warped and abstracted forms in his own porcelain.

Description

This artwork comprises two fluid boxes, one inside the other, each moving to its own rhythm. Razor thin, the porcelain shapes are reminiscent of origami, the Japanese art of folding paper. By challenging fixed ideas for what is possible with porcelain, Nagae Shigekazu has created a new form of ceramic art.
White porcelain sculpture featuring one rectangular box in another, warping fluidly into each other. Where the base of the boxes would be, the grey background shows through them. They tilt upward on our left, sides curving in on the long edges and out on the short edges while preserving pointed corners. The smaller box slides down, on our right, with a large gap on our left between it's short edge and the the larger box's.

Forms in Succession #11

2010

Nagae Shigekazu

(Japanese, b. 1953)
Japan, Heisei period (1989–2019)

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