Sogu Katachi 05 (Sliced Form 05)
Coming from a long lineage of potters in Seto, one of Japan’s historic ceramic centers, Nagae Shigekazu creates works that fuse technical mastery with expressive form. This thin-walled white porcelain began as a perfectly measured parallelogram, which the artist then bent and distorted in a high-temperature kiln using supports and weights. After firing, he sharpened the edges and textured the surface with sandpaper and applied a thin, clear glaze, before returning the object to the kiln. The resulting form—undulating and hovering—evokes a bird poised to take flight.
Artwork Details
- 長江重和作 削ぐかたち 05
- Title:Sogu Katachi 05 (Sliced Form 05)
- Artist:Nagae Shigekazu (Japanese, born 1953)
- Period:Heisei period (1989–2019)
- Date:2005
- Culture:Japan
- Medium:Porcelain
- Dimensions:9 × 25 × 15 in. (22.9 × 63.5 × 38.1 cm)
- Classification:Ceramics
- Credit Line:Gift of Halsey and Alice North, 2017
- Object Number:2017.166.10
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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