photo: SAIKI Taku
”The Skull” Candy Jar with Design of Flowers
| Artist | Kamide Choemon-gama + Maruwakaya |
|---|---|
| Year | 2009 |
| Material/ Technique | porcelain |
| Size/ Duration | H16 × W14 × D21cm |
| Copyright Notice | © Kamide Choemon Gama © Maruwakaya |
| Year of acquisition/ donation | 2011 |
| Description | At Kamide Choemon-gama pottery founded in 1879 for Kutani ware, every aspect of production from preparing kaolin, painting to baking is done in the company. Present Choemon is the 5th generation. Maruwakaya, a company founded by MARUWAKA Hirotoshi in Tokyo in 2010, is based both in Japan and France. It manufactures products applying outstanding technologies to traditional crafts as well as the latest industry in contemporary style. Working with KAMIDE Keigo, sixth generation of Kamide Choemon pottery manufacturer, who takes part in product planning, Maruwaka produced a bicycle saddle for Puma in 2007. Since then, the two have collaborated continuously. They produced tableware together with Spanish designer Jaime HAYON. On a porcelain skull made as a candy jar is hand-painted a design of flowers by a ceramic painter. As one of motifs representing colorful Kutani, ‘hanazume’ (design of flowers) shows flowers covering the whole porcelain. It uses Kutani technique in which paints are applied in thick impasto on lines drawn by ‘gosu’ blue. The meaning of flowers painted on the form of a skull is based on Maruwakaya’s interpretation that there is an aspect of cheerfulness in a view of life and death of Japanese people. It is an attempt to modernize traditional crafts inherited in Kaga district for generations. Besides the motif of the design of flowers, there are variations such as ‘sometsuke’ (blue and white porcelain) version and gold-applied “Gold Apricot Flowers in Impasto.” |
NOTES
This Collection Data page contains the works and materials in the collection of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, as of April 1, 2018.
Artists are listed alphabetically by artist’s surname.
Works and materials by the same artists are listed according to the date of the work in principle.
Works whose dates are unidentified are listed at the end of each item. Some works are not listed according to the date of work due to their relations.
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