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Date(s) - 09/19/2022
12:00 am
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Pucker Gallery
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Zen Spirit: Evolving Tradition in the Work of Miraku Kamei XV and Hisaaki Kamei
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| Monday, 19 September at 10AM, EST
This is a virtual event via Zoom hosted by Pucker Gallery.
This event will be recorded and uploaded to our YouTube channel. |
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Miraku Kamei XV
Tea Bowl (chawan) oribe and copper glazes
Stoneware
3 x 5 x 5″ | XV194
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| Please join us Monday 19 September at 10AM EST for a conversation with Pucker Gallery Artist Miraku Kamei XV and Hisaaki Kamei. They will be joined by Professor Andrew Maske and Gallery Director Bernard Pucker with the aid of friend and translator Mugi Hanao.
The work of Miraku Kamei XV and his son Hisaaki Kamei continues from the 400-year-old tradition of ceramic production known as Takatori ware. This new collection of work was made by them during the pandemic while thinking of Zen practice. The basic shapes focus on the square to triangle, then to circle. This discussion will be a unique opportunity to hear from Miraku Kamei and Hisaaki and learn more about their intent and the results.
The exhibition, Zen Spirit: Work by Miraku Kamei XV & Hisaaki Kamei will be on view at Pucker Gallery from 10 September through 9 October 2022. |
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| Miraku Kamei XV was born Masahisa Kamei in 1960, the eldest son of Miraku Kamei XIV, master potter of Takatori ware. He completed his university degree in Ceramics at Kyoto Saga University of Arts, and took the title of the fifteenth generation in 2001. Mr. Kamei has been carrying on the tradition of Takatori ware for more than thirty years. In addition to exhibiting and promoting Takatori ware around Japan, he is an active teacher, training students in ceramics at a number of institutions around his home city of Fukuoka. He is also president of the Fukuoka/Hakata branch of the Japan Ceramics Association and a member of numerous arts organizations. In 2016, Kamei received the award of Contemporary Master Craftsman, designated to a craftsman with excellent skills from Fukuoka, Japan. |
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| Hisaaki Kamei was born as the first son of Takatoriyaki Miraku Kamei XV. Takatori started at Kuroda Clan’s kiln and has been created for tea ceremonies for 400 years. Based on a tea master Enshu Kobori’s kirei sabi (bright sabi), each generation has inherited from previous masters several techniques, including symmetrical shapes, thin structures, and gradation using seven different traditional glazes. Each master has moved forward creating his own pottery. Kamei has said, “I have learned these traditional techniques from my father and every day, I am making pottery based on what I inherited as well as what I learned in Kyoto.” |
| Andrew Maske received his doctorate in Japanese Art History from Oxford University. He teaches courses concentrating on the art of East Asia (China, Korea, and Japan). As a curator of Japanese art between 1999 and 2005, he developed the exhibition Geisha: Beyond the Painted Smile and served as editor and primary author of the critically acclaimed volume by the same name. This exhibition explored Japanese geisha both as the subject of artwork and as performing artists themselves from the eighteenth century to the present day. Dr. Maske also played a major role in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2003 catalogue, Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth Century Japan, which examined the revolution in Japanese aesthetics that began in the late sixteenth century. He has published articles and reviews in Archaeometry, Journal of Japanese Studies, Orientations, and Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan.
During the seven years he lived in Japan, Dr. Maske studied numerous aspects of Japanese art and culture, practicing chanoyu (tea ceremony), Japanese dance, and music by way of the shamisen. In 2006-2007 he was awarded a Fulbright research fellowship to study the development of contemporary ceramics in China. |
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| Bernard Pucker is the director of the Pucker Gallery, which he founded with his wife, Sue, on Newbury Street in Boston in 1967. Pucker Gallery represents over fifty artists from around the world working in a approximately ten exhibitions annually, often paired with artist talks, virtual “WebinArts,” and Gallery dinners.
Bernie is currently a Board Member at the Japan Society, Boston, and the Jewish Publication Society. He also serves on the Leadership Council for Facing History and Ourselves as well as the Artistic Advisory Board for the Terezin Music Foundation. Previously, he served as: President of Solomon Schechter Day School; President of the Newbury Street League; and Board Member for the Friends of Copley Square and The Unity Project, among others.
Bernie received his MA in Modern Jewish History from Brandeis University and his BA in History and English Literature from Columbia College. |
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