This signature, thick-walled, tapering vessel decorated with enigmatic black designs against a lacquer-red ground, epitomises a constant theme in Morino’s work. There is a playful ambiguity, recalling the iron metalwork seen on traditional Japanese red-lacquered furniture, as the black motifs dance across the inner and outer surfaces. Much has also been written regarding Morino’s focus on the Japanese concept of negative space, ma, and the rhythms that works such as this piece exhibit.
Reflecting on his career, Morino has identified a broad set of influences, from his time teaching in US, to an appreciation of the energy of 1960s Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism, and his embracing of the avant-garde post-war Sodeisha movement in its reaction to the mingei, folk craft, ceramic tradition.
Morino’s work is held in the collections of over 60 major public institutions worldwide, including Brooklyn Museum NY, Cleveland Museum of Art OH, Metropolitan Museum of Art NY, Minneapolis Institute of Art MN, Musée des Arts Décoratifs Paris FR, Museum of Fine Arts Boston MA, National Museums of Modern Art in Kyoto, Tokyo and Osaka, Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art South Korea, Victoria & Albert Museum London UK.
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FLOWER VASE kabin by MORINO Taimei (b.1934)
£2,700.00
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Description
FLOWER VASE kabin
by MORINO Taimei (b.1934)
Heisei period, c.2000
Stoneware with resist glaze motifs
14 (dia.) x 21 (h) cm.
Signed. Sealed wrapping cloth
Signed and sealed tomobako
This signature, thick-walled, tapering vessel decorated with enigmatic black designs against a lacquer-red ground, epitomises a constant theme in Morino’s work. There is a playful ambiguity, recalling the iron metalwork seen on traditional Japanese red-lacquered furniture, as the black motifs dance across the inner and outer surfaces. Much has also been written regarding Morino’s focus on the Japanese concept of negative space, ma, and the rhythms that works such as this piece exhibit.
Reflecting on his career, Morino has identified a broad set of influences, from his time teaching in US, to an appreciation of the energy of 1960s Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism, and his embracing of the avant-garde post-war Sodeisha movement in its reaction to the mingei, folk craft, ceramic tradition.
Morino’s work is held in the collections of over 60 major public institutions worldwide, including Brooklyn Museum NY, Cleveland Museum of Art OH, Metropolitan Museum of Art NY, Minneapolis Institute of Art MN, Musée des Arts Décoratifs Paris FR, Museum of Fine Arts Boston MA, National Museums of Modern Art in Kyoto, Tokyo and Osaka, Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art South Korea, Victoria & Albert Museum London UK.
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