Morino Taimei
Vase, ca 1970
Glazed stoneware
Size 8½ x 6 x 6 in. (21 x 15 x 15 cm)
T-5421
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The work comes with its original fitted paulownia-wood tomobako storage box inscribed and signed by Morino. Morino Taimei (also known as Morino Hiroaki) is a highly influential postwar Japanese ceramic...
The work comes with its original fitted paulownia-wood tomobako storage box inscribed and signed by Morino.
Morino Taimei (also known as Morino Hiroaki) is a highly influential postwar Japanese ceramic artist renowned for his avant-garde, hand-built stoneware vessels and sculptural forms. He is closely associated with the revolutionary Sodeisha group, which challenged the traditional boundaries of functional folk-craft in favor of ceramics as a medium for pure, abstract fine art.
Morino's work centers on the conceptual philosophy of "designs born of solids, solids born of designs." Rather than relying on a potter's wheel, he employs hand-building techniques to create bold, double-glazed architectural forms and flattened geometric vessels.
He uniquely bridges classical Kyoto-based glazing traditions with modern Western influences. During his tenure as a guest professor at the University of Chicago in the 1960s, Morino absorbed elements of American Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism. This culminated in a signature aesthetic characterized by vibrant polychrome motifs
Born into a multi-generational lineage of ceramicists, Morino formally trained under legendary master potters Kenkichi Tomimoto and Toshimichi Fujimoto at the Kyoto Municipal University of Fine Arts.
Morino's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Tokyo and Kyoto National Museums of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Institution's Sackler Gallery, the Portland Art Museum, and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.
Morino Taimei (also known as Morino Hiroaki) is a highly influential postwar Japanese ceramic artist renowned for his avant-garde, hand-built stoneware vessels and sculptural forms. He is closely associated with the revolutionary Sodeisha group, which challenged the traditional boundaries of functional folk-craft in favor of ceramics as a medium for pure, abstract fine art.
Morino's work centers on the conceptual philosophy of "designs born of solids, solids born of designs." Rather than relying on a potter's wheel, he employs hand-building techniques to create bold, double-glazed architectural forms and flattened geometric vessels.
He uniquely bridges classical Kyoto-based glazing traditions with modern Western influences. During his tenure as a guest professor at the University of Chicago in the 1960s, Morino absorbed elements of American Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism. This culminated in a signature aesthetic characterized by vibrant polychrome motifs
Born into a multi-generational lineage of ceramicists, Morino formally trained under legendary master potters Kenkichi Tomimoto and Toshimichi Fujimoto at the Kyoto Municipal University of Fine Arts.
Morino's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Tokyo and Kyoto National Museums of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Institution's Sackler Gallery, the Portland Art Museum, and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.
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