Akio Niisato

Memory of Tradition International Ceramics Exhibition

About the Artist

Akio Niisato was born in Chiba Prefecture in 1977. After dropping out of the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Waseda University, he continued his studies at the Tajimi City Ceramics and Design Centre and received his diploma in 2001. Selected awards include New Artist Award, Premio Faenza 54th Edition (2005, Italy); Grand Prize, Paramita Museum Ceramics Competition (2008); Special Jury Award, International Ceramics Festival MINO; Incentive Award, Kikuchi Biennale (Tokyo, 2009); and New Artist Award, MOA Mokichi Okada Award (Tokyo, 2014). He has participated in numerous exhibitions both in Japan and overseas, including the USA, Italy and Romania, where his works continue to be widely acclaimed. The artist’s representative work ‘Luminescent’ consists of vessels created by drilling holes in translucent white porcelain and filling each hole with transparent glaze before firing. The works, which appear to emit light in themselves, are the result of an independent development of the Chinese technique of ‘hotarude’, which, when flooded with light, produces translucent patterns with a luminescent appearance, likened to fireflies. In addition to this technique, which seeks to explore vessel forms that transcend everyday contexts, in recent years she has begun to produce works that, although rooted in tradition, give form to natural traces arising from the dialogue between materials and her own body.

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