Pierre Marie Giraud announces a new gallery exhibition by Kazunori Hamana, starting April 27. The Japanese artist, known for his large ceramic vessels called tsubos, presents a new series of artworks inspired by ancient craftsmanship and tradition.
Before becoming a ceramicist, Kazunori Hamana led a different life in the Japanese capital Tokyo. As manager of both a fashion store and a fusion restaurant, he sat right at the pulse of a vibrant, cosmopolitan and modern Japan. Along the way, however, he developed a fascination for traditional Asian crafts; one of them being tsubos, the Japanese equivalent of Roman amphorae.
Frustrated by the lack of contemporary tsubos to complete his collection, Hamana decided to take matters into his own hands: he left the city and settled in a remote house by the sea where he started working as a ceramicist. Today, he has developed a very own sense of style, creating irregular pots that are built from coils with a unique skin of scratches and scored glazes.
The result is a contemporary interpretation of an age-old Japanese ceramic culture; an adaptation that pays tribute to its heritage, while approaching it from an unconventional angle. Hamana’s tsubos are simple and essential; yet, they force us to reflect. They are shaped by the same environment from which they were born: left outside, on the artist’s terrace overlooking the ocean, for the elements to play with.
| Hours | Tuesday to Saturday 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM |
| Type | Art Exhibition |
| Duration | 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM |
About
Pierre Marie Giraud
Pierre Marie Giraud specializes in unique and limited-edition pieces by international artists working in ceramics, glass and silver. Founded in Brussels in 2005, the gallery represents an exceptional group of over thirty emerging, mid-career and established artists from Europe, North America, Japan and Africa, and regularly showcases their work in both solo and thematic exhibitions. The minimalist and light-filled interiors of the gallery, which is housed in an elegant nineteenth-century townhouse, reflect Giraud's considered approach towards the presentation and appreciation of contemporary applied art. At the same time, the spaces are domestic in scale, which reinforces the link between art and everyday life. The gallery is known for exhibiting only the very best and most original makers, and work that embodies conceptual, technical and aesthetic innovation. Pierre Marie Giraud is internationally recognized for his unparalleled expertise in ceramics. He regularly advises European and American museums on collection acquisitions and curatorial issues, and collaborates with a number of institutions on the promotion of contemporary ceramics.
