"Spent Heat: Time in the Works of Yohei Nishimura" Exhibition
Cavin-Morris Gallery
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Cavin-Morris Gallery has been interested in the fired books and magazines of Yohei Nishimura since first being introduced to his work via the Internet and our friend in Japan, Robert Yellin. Born in Kyoto in 1947, Nishimura’s work was for us the epitome of what the potential of non-functional ceramics could be. There is a dark poetry that speaks not only of apocalypse, but also of rebirth and strength. These books have been through a holocaust of flame and they have survived despite their seeming fragility. There are many messages mixed in Nishimura’s highly metaphorical works.
This will be Yohei Nishimura’s first one-person exhibit in New York, although he is extremely well known as part of Japans’ edgy avant-garde. Also known in ceramic circles, Nishimura has moved beyond being a ceramist to a place where clay is only one of his modes of process. This exhibition will feature a significant group of his fired books.
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Schedule
from March 05, 2009 to April 11, 2009