A striking black sculptural form by Imura Toshimi enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Yo 23-S6(Vibration 23-S6).It is 19.5 x 12 x 17 cm (8 x 5 x 7 inches) and is in perfect condition, directly from the artist.
Imura Toshimi was born in Osaka in 1961 and graduate the progressive Kanazawa University of Art in 1984, followed by a year of study at the Gifu Prefectural Industrial School Advanced Ceramics Program. With a stack of awards garnered over the last 30 years, in 2024 he was selected as one of only six for the prestigious Paramita Museum Taisho-ten.He currently serves as director of the Tajimi Municipal Mino-yaki Museum.A monument by him stands in front of the Tajimi Train Station, and he is held in the collections of the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, the Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Ceramic Art in Gifu, National Crafts Museum in Ishikawa, International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza (Italy), the Victoria and Albert Museum (United Kingdom), the Yingge Ceramics Museum (Taiwan), the Tajimi City Mino Ware Museum, the Tajimi City Mosaic Tile Museum, the Tohshin Mino Ceramic Art Museum and the National University of Misiones (Argentina) among others.
