Materials of the EarthGroup Exhibition
Natural materials take central stage in Sokyo Lisbon's new exhibition as we show works by Osamu KOJIMA, Luke FULLER and Shozo MICHIKAWA. The three artists highlight the natural origins of ceramics through their techniques and inspiration. The strength of elemental materials is embraced in remarkably powerful pieces.The relationship of people with clay is an ancient one. Because clay is widely found in nature we have been using it since prehistory to produce tools that help us in our daily lives, or simply to create aesthetic forms that endlessly please or spiritually inspire us. Clay is an honorable material that has allowed human societies to advance and to extend their creativity. The shapes and colors we have given clay are so rich and diverse that we often forget how organic are the processes involving mountain formation, water, erosion, rocks, and sand. “Materials of the Earth” brings together three unique and very different artists to celebrate their connections to the elemental features of ceramic artworks.
Exhibited artists
Exhibited artworks
19-08 • 2019
Blue 15-03 • 2015
Nostalgia 19-TWs02 • 2019
Blue 17-03 • 2017
Sculptural Form Kohiki • 2018
Sculptural Form Natural Ash • 2018
Sculptural Form Natural Ash • 2018
Sculptural Form Shino • 2018
Sculptural Form Tanka with Striation
Sculptural Form • 2018
Mafic • 2022
Fissure • 2022
Felsic • 2022
Basin • 2022
Pore • 2022
Vessel or Not?Group Exhibition
Ichikawa Toru
Kimura Moriyasu
Matsui Toshio
Matsumura Jun
Michikawa Shozo
Exhibition23.02.2022 — 02.04.2022
Sokyo Lisbon presents its new group exhibition, Vessel or Not?, an intimate gathering of five Japanese ceramists sharing the same space and harmoniously exploring the same material with their different approaches.
Ceramic artworks frequently float in between functional and sculptural concepts. If, on one side, we have objects created to be used with a particular function, on the other we have pieces which value is mostly aesthetic and symbolic. But is there a line that separates both environments? Can an artist work in both universes? Can we find features from both concepts in one artwork? How do we separate one from another? The exhibition features five artists with the purpose of bringing up that duality and inviting the viewer to reflect on this matter.
Exhibited artists
Exhibited artworks
Au.Pt • 2017
N/A • N/A
N/A • N/A
Au. Pt • N/A
Temmoku Andromeda • 2019
Tenmoku Andromeda • 2019
Tenmoku Andromeda • 2019
Tenmoku Sky Chawan • 2019
Kazan Tenmoku Chawan • 2019
Tenmoku Sky Chawan • 2019
Tenmoku Cosmos • 2019
girasole • 2017
Kumihama • 2018
Kumihama • 2018
Kumihama • 2018
Kumihama • 2018
Sinking Fish • 2019
N/A • N/A
Shifting Qualia • 2020
Sculptural Form Kohiki Mizusashi • 2019
Sculptural Form Kohiki Pot • 2019
TransfigurationGroup Exhibition
The metamorphic qualities of clay and glass converge in this exhibition through the work
of four artists. Transfiguration, the act of changing from one state into another, from soft
to hard, matte to glistening, transparency to opaqueness places these permutations into
evidence and are a reflection of the creative spirits behind each work.
Between them they conceive objects that are materialized through their exquisite control
of technique, harnessing and extracting from the medium its most formidable and gentle
features.
Exhibited artists
Exhibited artworks
Kazuhito Kawai — Riding for a Fall
Solo Exhibition
Opening
19.10.2021, 4pm — 8pm
at Sokyo Lisbon Gallery
Exhibition
20.10.2021 — 04.12.2021
ARTSY
Sokyo Lisbon is delighted to introduce Kazuhito Kawai, one of the most praised emerging artists working in Japan.Riding for a Fall is Kazuhito Kawai first solo exhibition with Sokyo Lisbon. Using a distinctive approach to ceramic, Kawai’s sculptures emerge like castles or vessels in which the extreme glaze overflows with nostalgic expression that holds and traps the artist’s emotions and concepts.
Exhibited artists
Exhibited artworks
Donatella • 2020
Masafumi Sanai and Seven Stars • 2020
no name • 2020
It's a small world • 2021
White, ca. • 2021
I mall • 2019
hitomi yaida • 2018
Aliens • 2021
2020 • 2021
Yoon Heechang — Rivers
Solo Exhibition
Opening
30.06.2021, 1pm — 8pm
at Sokyo Lisbon Gallery
Exhibition
01.07.2021 — 25.09.2021
ARTSY
Sokyo Lisbon is delighted to present Yoon Heechang's first ever solo presentation in Europe. Rivers is a two-part exhibition introducing the artist’s seminal sand river paintings.Paying particular attention to the environment that surrounds us – both physical and metaphysical – his works are deeply connected to landscape: “representing the land by the land itself”.
The exhibition Rivers introduces his work through a series of paintings made with sand collected along the Kamogawa River and the Seine, including an eight-minute video accompanying the artist work process between the Kamogawa's riverbed environs Kyoto and at the studio at Tama Art University in Tokyo.
Exhibited artists
Exhibited artworks
Kamogawa River #1324 #1325 #1326 • 2018
Sand River Work – The Seine #1406 • 2019
Kamogawa River #1329 • 2018
Sand River Work – The Seine #1407 • 2019
Sand River Work Digital Video • 2018
Japanese BlueGroup Exhibition
Sokyo Lisbon is pleased to host a group exhibition, Japanese Blue, showing six Japanese contemporary artists and a selection of 15 artworks in which the blue pigment, representative of both Japanese and Portuguese ceramic expression for decades, is the leading feature.
This exhibition, the second held at Sokyo Lisbon, offers an extraordinary selection of six artists: Hashimoto Machiko, Hoshino Satoru, Kishi Eiko, Kojima Osamu, Kosaka Mio and Nakashima Harumi.
Exhibited artists
Exhibited artworks
Seasons • 2017
- Seasons - Dance • 2019
Blue 17-03 • 2017
Purple 19-06 • 2019
Blue 11-02 • 2011
Blue 15-03 • 2015
Tide • 2020
Shisho wo tsumu • 2016
Nougata • 2011
Sansuiki-Spring Snow 19-01 • 2019
Sansuiki-Spring Snow 19-03 • 2019
Sansuiki-Spring Snow 19-S4 • 2019
Sansuiki-Spring Snow 19-S2 • 2019
Sansuiki-Spring Snow 16-B12 • 2019
A Disclosing Form 1609 • 2016
