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A long porcelain sculpture by Yagi Akira retaining the original wooden stand enclosed in the original signed box titled Jiken Vestage 92-7. The artist has formed it in the shape of an ancient relic, then covered the flat front side in orange-red lacquer which has been buffed through reveling the white clay beneath.It is 9.5 x 2 x 75 cm (4 x 1 x 28-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition. Signed box original wooden stand.
Yagi Akira was born in Kyoto in 1955, son of avant garde Yagi Kazuo (1918-1979) one of the founding members of Sodeisha. Akira was voted one of the 20 most important living artists by Honoho, Japans premier printed ceramic forum. Works by the artist are held in the British Museum, Victoria Albert Museum, Cleveland Art Museum, Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian and Tokyo Museum of Modern Art among many others. He was also the recipient of the Japan Ceramic Society (JCS) award in 1998, one in a long and prestigious list of awards. For more see “Quiet Clarity, Rin” (1996) or the aforementioned “Contemporary Clay, Japanese Ceramics for the New Century “(2005) by Joe Earle.
