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PiVOTAL Interview Series

Transformative Voices

To Mukouno Exit

This is a video streaming site that shares the creative stories of artists who break the mold in various fields of art. We plan to gradually increase the number of videos, so please keep an eye on it.

First installment

Yoji Urishima

Born in Tokyo in 1931. He began his creative activities in 1950, which he continues to this day. At the same time, he served as editor-in-chief of the magazine "Ikebana Ryusei" from 1960 to 1999.

- Promoting appreciation of the letters that decorate the town
-Edited the Ryusei Ikebana newsletter for approximately 40 years
・Active at the forefront of abstract art in both two- and three-dimensional works
・The carbonization of books raises concerns about the future of written culture

Part 2

Yasuto Abe

Born in Osaka in 1938, he grew up in Ehime Prefecture. In the late 1970s, he burst onto the ceramics scene with his works, which were praised as "Bizen like no other since the Momoyama period." In 2006, he created a buzz by releasing his "Colored Bizen" works.

・Aspiring to become a painter, he held his first solo exhibition in Tokyo in 1967
・Ceramics that started as a hobby became my main job
・Proposed and demonstrated firing and design theories that overturned the preconceived ideas of the time
・New possibilities for ceramics are still revealed at the annual exhibition