photo: WATANABE Osamu
Style of Dominance
| Artist | NAKAMURA Kohei |
|---|---|
| Year | 2012 |
| Material/ Technique | porcelain, wooden frame |
| Size/ Duration | H206 × W298 × D9.5cm |
| Copyright Notice | © NAKAMURA Kohei |
| Year of acquisition/ donation | 2012（作品購入年月日：2012/10/15） |
| Description | Born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan in 1948. Lives and works there. After taking ceramics into a contemporary art-like realm in the 1990s, Nakamura Kohei around 2000 expanded his work to large-scale installations and, in 2004, produced "Throne of Idea". After reawakening to the tea ceremony, he then pursued tea conceptually through the production of tea-bowls and tea implements. For the “Art Crafting towards the Future” exhibition at this museum in 2012, he again produced large-scale ceramic works after a long hiatus, employing them in an installation along with "Throne of Idea". He has since returned to creating tea-bowls and – taking an equivocal stance that may be understood as either archaic or critical – engages in “copying.” Nakamura creates ceramic objects using his mastery of the katamono shaping technique. This decorative wall relief he created using this technique. A pattern relief work with projecting features, rendered in an extremely minimal style, it employs a single pattern that repeats infinitely. It is a large work, the most austere of Nakamura’s ceramic pieces until this time. From creating floor-standing objects in the 1990s, he moved to wall installations in 1999 with "RESURRECTION". This work, "Style of Dominance", is a sequel to "RESURRECTION", a further developed version, we can believe. Its tenaciously repetitive pattern goes beyond beauty to awaken a feeling of fear. |
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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