Fuji ("Enfant du Vent")

Kobayashi, Masami

En 2006
Céramique, Grès, Glaçure = Couverte
Don manuel : Scremini, Clara

M.C. 2012-8

After apprenticing with a potter in Kasama in 1972, Kobayashi settled in this potters’ village founded in the 18th century by an artisan from Shigaraki, Chôemon. From 1977 to the present day, he participates regularly in contemporary ceramic exhibitions (Nihon Tôgei Ten, Nihon Gendai Kôgei Bijutsu ten). His work reflects the modernisation of Japanese ceramic forms. He was awarded the Itaya Hazan Prize in 1992, and the Gendai Kôgei Prize in 1996. He is renowned worldwide, and has exhibited at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg (1995), in Taipei (2000), in Italy (Piombino), in Shanghai (2003) and in France (2004-2007).