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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Untitled Sculpture

Sculpture
1988 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

The example of Hayashi's work shown here is of a type with which he began experimenting in the early 1980s. It was hand-built with the aid of a mould from slightly open-textured stoneware clay before being totally covered in black slip. A series of operations involving the masking out of areas of the slip covering and the spraying on of glaze by air-gun was then used to build up the illusionistic surface patterning. While this particular piece consists of an upright half-cylinder sitting on a flat elliptical base, most of Hayashi's recent sculptures are more severely angular in form. In all cases, however, they are remarkable for the way in which real and suggested depth are used to produce complex, often multi-layered, three-dimensional structures.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleUntitled Sculpture (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Stoneware with black slip and resist-applied clear glaze
Brief description
Sculpture, stoneware with black slip and resist-applied clear glaze, made by Hayashi Yasuo, Japan (Kyoto), 1988
Physical description
Sculpture, flat elliptical base supporting semi-cylindrical upright section with undulating flat surface to the front; rounded top sloping towards front. Hollow form made from slightly open-textured stoneware clay.

Box: Wooden box
Dimensions
  • Height: 34.7cm
  • Base length: 29.0cm
  • Base width: 27.5cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
Maker's mark 'Yasuo' and date 1988 on base
Production
Artist: Hayashi Yasuo (1928- )
Biographical reference: **
Kyoto
Summary
The example of Hayashi's work shown here is of a type with which he began experimenting in the early 1980s. It was hand-built with the aid of a mould from slightly open-textured stoneware clay before being totally covered in black slip. A series of operations involving the masking out of areas of the slip covering and the spraying on of glaze by air-gun was then used to build up the illusionistic surface patterning. While this particular piece consists of an upright half-cylinder sitting on a flat elliptical base, most of Hayashi's recent sculptures are more severely angular in form. In all cases, however, they are remarkable for the way in which real and suggested depth are used to produce complex, often multi-layered, three-dimensional structures.
Bibliographic reference
Faulker, Rupert Japanese Studio Crafts: Tradition and the Avant-Garde, London: Laurence King Publishing, 1995, plate no. 27.
Collection
Accession number
FE.2-1989

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Record createdFebruary 12, 2000
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