KAGAYAKI-Vessel for lights 2012
I am trying approach to contemporary art from ceramic art. We as a potter, make vessels. I am making vessels for invisible or things without shapes and volume. For example, vessel for sounds, vessel for time, vessel for light or rays.
KAGAYAKI are vessel for lights or rays. I made KAGAYAKI body by translucent clay. I illuminated KAGAYAKI with LED light from inside. I began making this series after 3.11 2011 FUKUSHIMA. I hope that the light from my works purify the soul of the peoples for requiem.
I will make new works of KAGAYAKI series during residency and exhibit Italy exhibition.
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Tetsuya Tanaka
Japan
Member of IAC [International Academy of Ceramics]
2021 Ceramic Congress 2021, Online, The Ceramic School, Austria
2020 Emerging TalentsⅠTANAKA Tetsuya Online Exhibition, Online, Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd, New York, USA
2019 Clayarch Gimhae Museum international Summer Workshop 2019, South Korea
2019 Tetsuya Tanaka Solo Exhibition, Gallery life seeding, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Guest Artist Residency, EKWC [European Ceramic Work Center], The Netherlands
2017 Guest Artist Residency, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shiga, Japan
2017 Guest Artist Residency, New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan
2016 Merit Prize, 2016 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale International Competition, Taiwan
2015 Guest Artist Residency, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, USA
2015 Honorable Mention, 8th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale International Competition, South Korea
2009 TANAKA, Tetsuya-The Scene of Nostalgic Near Future, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park Museum, Shiga, Japan