YOSHIMI FUTAMURA Japan, b. 1959
Overview
Magic Pot, 2022
Yoshimi Futamura was born in 1959 in Nagoya, Japan. Between 1979 and 1981, she studied ceramics at the School of Ceramic Art in Seto. She arrived in Paris in 1986 and opened her studio there in 2010.
Her sculptural forms reflect nature and are imbued with a living essence. Yoshimi Futamura uses a mixture of clay, sandstone, cooked porcelain and raw granulation to create rounded and collapsed shapes, both vegetal and geological in appearance. In a suspended moment, the artist seems to have captured the remains of a great flow of lava that would have taken these almost supernatural dimensions on contact with air or water. Yoshimi creates her ceramics in the pure tradition of the Japanese Grand Masters, embracing all the possibilities inherent in this millennial art.
In 2004, Yoshimi Futamura won the first prize in the biennial Ceramic Art Andenne. She exhibited in 2011 at the Ariana Museum in Geneva (Switzerland) and in 2014 at the Bruno Lussato Institute and Marina Fédier in Brussels (Belgium). Futamura presents in 2016 the exhibition Collapse/Rebirth in New York. Her work is part of many international collections, such as those of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (USA), Shimoda City Museum (Shizuoka, Japan), World Ceramic Exposition Foundation (Korea), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (Rotterdam, Holland), Foundation of Ateliers d'Art (France).
Her sculptural forms reflect nature and are imbued with a living essence. Yoshimi Futamura uses a mixture of clay, sandstone, cooked porcelain and raw granulation to create rounded and collapsed shapes, both vegetal and geological in appearance. In a suspended moment, the artist seems to have captured the remains of a great flow of lava that would have taken these almost supernatural dimensions on contact with air or water. Yoshimi creates her ceramics in the pure tradition of the Japanese Grand Masters, embracing all the possibilities inherent in this millennial art.
In 2004, Yoshimi Futamura won the first prize in the biennial Ceramic Art Andenne. She exhibited in 2011 at the Ariana Museum in Geneva (Switzerland) and in 2014 at the Bruno Lussato Institute and Marina Fédier in Brussels (Belgium). Futamura presents in 2016 the exhibition Collapse/Rebirth in New York. Her work is part of many international collections, such as those of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (USA), Shimoda City Museum (Shizuoka, Japan), World Ceramic Exposition Foundation (Korea), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (Rotterdam, Holland), Foundation of Ateliers d'Art (France).
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