Where:
Pucker Gallery
240 Newbury Street, 3rd floor
Boston, MA 02116
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Art, Date Idea, Rainy Day Ideas, Shopping
Event website:
https://www.puckergallery.com/events/2024/9/7/public-opening-reception
Please join us for the Public Opening Reception of “Knowledge, Purpose, Skill: New Work by Miraku Kamei and Hisaaki Kamei” on Saturday, 7 September from 3-6PM.
The “Knowledge, Purpose, Skill” exhibition will be on view at Pucker Gallery from 7 September through 13 October. You can view the catalog here.
Miraku Kamei XV was born Masahisa Kamei in 1960, the eldest son of Miraku Kamei XIV, master potter of Takatori ware. He completed his university degree in Ceramics at Kyoto Saga University of Arts and took the title of the fifteenth generation in 2001. Mr. Kamei has been carrying on the tradition of Takatori ware for more than thirty years. In addition to exhibiting and promoting Takatori ware around Japan, he is an active teacher, training students in ceramics at a number of institutions around his home city of Fukuoka. He is also president of the Fukuoka/Hakata branch of the Japan Ceramics Association and a member of numerous arts organizations. In 2016, Kamei received the award of Contemporary Master Craftsman, designated to a craftsman with excellent skills from Fukuoka, Japan.
Hisaaki Kamei was born as the first son of Takatoriyaki Miraku Kamei XV. Takatori started as Kuroda Clan’s kiln and has been creating pottery for tea ceremony for 400 years. Based on a tea master Enshu Kobori’s kirei sabi (bright sabi), each generation has inherited from previous masters several techniques, including symmetrical shapes, thin structures, and gradation using seven different traditional glazes. Each master has moved forward creating his own pottery. Hisaaki Kamei received a B.A. at the School of Business at Hosei University and graduated from the Forming Department, Kyoto Prefecture Pottery School. He is a Board Member of the Japan-France Tea Ceremony Association and has recently lectured in Cameroon and France.
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