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Mr. Kazutoshi Iiyama, a ceramic artist who reflects human instincts glimpsed from Jyomon earthenware and the landscape felt from the nature of Mt. Yatsugatake on his works. He has talked about the ancient romance he has been attracted to since childhood and his works for us.

 

The feel and sense of air I experienced in my childhood has formed my current senses.

The feel and sense of air I experienced when I was running about on the ground of Jyomon at the foot of Mt. Yatsugatake by barefoot in my childhood has formed my current senses. At the time you could pick up pieces of Jyomon earthenware in the fields here and there. Pieces of earthenware were collected as my important treasure in an empty box of snack with cotton spread in it.


Jyomon earthenware is a means to describe the beauty human beings have been originally equipped with.

When I am looking at elaborate Jyomon textiles and shapes of its potteries, I feel that time for lives of ancient people passed very slowly so that they had enough mental capacity to be able to create those figures, which induces me to think that Jyomon earthenware has been a means to describe the beauty human beings have been originally equipped with, which comes from their instincts.


The landscape and ancient romance I once felt to be described in 3D works.

I love to create decorative works, too. I figure that the landscape and ancient romance I once felt in the fields or forests to be described in 3D works faced with current myself is an act driven by the instinct within myself.


Ceramic art educes my instinct and makes it distinct.

The accidentality created through burning works made with clay in the oven is peculiar to ceramic art. I name it “playing with clay”, not ceramic art, sculpture or artwork. For me, ceramic art is very attractive in being able to describe the invisible in 3D works to make my instinct distinct.

Kazutoshi Iiyama / ceramic artist

Ceramic artist from Chino. Member of Japan fine arts exhibition, to which he exhibited his work in 1994 to receive an award. Received Contemporary arts and crafts award of Japan contemporary arts and crafts exhibition. Attracted by Jyomon earthenware picked up in childhood to “play with clay” to describe what he felt from the nature of Mt. Yatsugatake.

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