Free admission
The Triangle
Sakamoto Kai: Fire, Earth, and Eating
2025/1/11-2025/3/16
Venue [ The Triangle ]
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Sakamoto Kai is a contemporary artist whose ceramics-centered practice involves traveling to various locations to collect clay and then creating work in self-made kilns. Treating the kiln for firing vessels as a sculpture in its own right, he holds performances and workshops to demonstrate the process of baking food in that kiln and then eating the resulting dishes. Sakamoto’s work always aspires to find uses for ceramics. His ceramic art emerges from the intermingling of fire, kiln, vessel, food, and the human desire to cook and eat.
The exhibition will include an installation featuring a kiln, moving image, and photography as well as workshops, performances, and other events in which Sakamoto shares his vision of ceramic art.
The Triangle
The Triangle is a space newly created for the reopening of the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art. It aims to nurture emerging artists, especially those associated with Kyoto, and to provide opportunities for museum visitors to experience contemporary art. In order to connect the artist, museum, and viewer in a triangle and deepen those connections, the space hosts an eponymous series of special exhibitions and presents new artistic expressions from Kyoto.Information
- Period
- January 11 (Sat.) - March 16 (Sun.), 2025
- Time
- 10:00-18:00
- Venue
- The Triangle
- Closed on
- Mondays (except public holidays)
- Admission
- Free admission
Sakamoto Kai
Born in 1997 in Nagasaki Prefecture, Sakamoto Kai graduated with a BA in mixed media from Kyoto University of Art and Design (today Kyoto University of the Arts) in 2019. He is a member of the shared studio Yamanaka Suplex. In his practice, Sakamoto focuses on the processes of making and the use of ceramics, creating work that rethinks the framework of ceramic art. His recent major exhibitions include Nakarai Tosui Kan Art Fest. CHANDELIER (Tsushima, 2024), Atami Art Grant 2023 (Atami Station Underground Passageway, 2023), and Ceremonial Ceramics: Physical Sensations / Soft Stone (Yamanaka Suplex annex “MINE”, Osaka, 2023).
- Organizer: City of Kyoto
- Sponsor: COHJU corporation
- Grant: Arts Support Kansai