KOIE RYŌJI
AB# 10695
KOIE RYŌJI (b. 1938)
Subject: Abstract ink painting
Title: "Alumin-a-kuot"
Date: 1999
Signed: Ryōji Koie (in romanji)
Medium: Ink on paper
Format: 2-fold “sleeping” screen
Size: 19 1/2 x 72 1/4 in.
Price: $ 10,000
One of the most versatile and forward-thinking of Japan’s contemporary artists, Koie is best known as a ceramist. His love of experimentation has led to creating “ceramic happenings,” with themes that are social and often contain political comments based on the horrors and disasters of the 20th century.
Literature
Selected References:
Joe Earle Contemporary Clay: Japanese ceramics for the new century (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2005) pp. 100-101
Gendai Nihon no tôgei Vol.14: tsuchi to hi no kisô (Tokyo: Kôdansha, 1984): 152-153.
Gendai no Nihon tôgei: Tôkai (Tokyo: Tankôsha, 1989)
Modern Japanese Ceramics in American Collections (New York: Japan Society, 1993): 58, 64-65.
Toh; Koie Ryôji, vol. 86 (Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin 1993).
Rupert Faulkner. Japanese Studio Crafts: Tradition and the Avant-Garde (London: Laurence King, 1994): 75-76.
"Koie Ryoji: Earth <-> Human" vol. 1 (Gifu: Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu).
“Koie Ryôji; Prior to Creation” In Toward a 21st Century Renaissance in Ceramics, vol. 2 (Kyoto: Dohôsha, 1997): 69- 95.
Exhibition Catalogue: Leaders of Contemporary Japanese Ceramics: Exploring Techniques and Forms for the New Century (Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum, 2001): 44-47.
Matsuyama, Tetsuo. “Shinjitsu ichiro no muteppô [Adventurous seeking of the truth].” Honoho Geijutsu no. 70 (Tokyo: Abe shuppan, 2002): 12-18.
“Naze tôgeika wa Oribe ni hikitsukerarerunoka? [Why ceramic artists are attracted by Oribe style?]” Tôjirô 30 (Tokyo: Futabasha, 2002): 31-34.