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Kawai Kazuhito
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Kansui Park AreaRakusuitei Museum of Art
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Kawai’s works encapsulate the duality of art and craft. While his use of clay and jar-like forms seems to speak to the tradition of pottery, his emphasis on expression and freedom of form gives his pieces the qualities of sculpture. Kawai’s polychromatic works evoke images of plastic toys and artificially colored ice cream and confections. Although trained as a potter, his background is in contemporary art, and Kawai’s works are conceptual. The exhibition reconceives Kawai’s creative process—from inspiration to finished work—as a physical studio tour. Armed with a flashlight, visitors are invited to enter a dark room and take a peek into the artist’s head.
About the Artist
b. 1984 in Ibaraki Prefecture. Kawai graduated from London’s Chelsea College of Arts with a BA (Hons) in fine art in 2007. He completed a second degree at the Kasama College of Ceramic Art in 2018. His recent exhibitions include The Fourth Dimension: To the Future of Vessels (Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, 2022), the solo exhibition Hold Me Close, a Grain at a Time (Kotaro Nukaga, Tokyo, 2022), and Foolish Fire (Newchild Gallery, Antwerp, 2023). His works are included in the Takahashi Ryutaro Collection and the Loewe Art Collection.
[Past work] Solo Exhibition, “Hold Me Close, a Grain at
a Time,” 2022. Photo: Sakamoto Osamu
[Past work] “IDC,” 2023, ceramic. Private collection.©Kawai Kazuhito
[Past work] “Kamikaze,” 2023, ceramic. Private collection.
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Kawai Kazuhito
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Kawai’s works encapsulate the duality of art and craft. While his use of clay and jar-like forms seems to speak to the tradition of pottery, his emphasis on expression and freedom of form gives his pieces the qualities of sculpture. Kawai’s polychromatic works evoke images of plastic toys and artificially colored ice cream and confections. Although trained as a potter, his background is in contemporary art, and Kawai’s works are conceptual. The exhibition reconceives Kawai’s creative process—from inspiration to finished work—as a physical studio tour. Armed with a flashlight, visitors are invited to enter a dark room and take a peek into the artist’s head.
[Past work] Solo Exhibition, “Hold Me Close, a Grain at
a Time,” 2022. Photo: Sakamoto Osamu
About the Artist
b. 1984 in Ibaraki Prefecture. Kawai graduated from London’s Chelsea College of Arts with a BA (Hons) in fine art in 2007. He completed a second degree at the Kasama College of Ceramic Art in 2018. His recent exhibitions include The Fourth Dimension: To the Future of Vessels (Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, 2022), the solo exhibition Hold Me Close, a Grain at a Time (Kotaro Nukaga, Tokyo, 2022), and Foolish Fire (Newchild Gallery, Antwerp, 2023). His works are included in the Takahashi Ryutaro Collection and the Loewe Art Collection.
[Past work] “IDC,” 2023, ceramic. Private collection.©Kawai Kazuhito
[Past work] “Kamikaze,” 2023, ceramic. Private collection.
