Hamada Shōji (1894-1978), Very large bowl with nuka (rice-husk) white glaze ground with ladle-poured iron-glazed black trailing design, ca. 1950s
Zoom Gallery Talks: Spring 2024
Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 5pm ET
Art of the People: Exploring the Mingei Film Archive
Perhaps one of the best-known aspects of Japanese ceramics in the West remains the Mingei folk art movement and its leading proponents, Hamada Shōji and Bernard Leach. Because of their advocacy and publicly facing roles, aided greatly by the medium of film, the timeless qualities of Mingei have figured prominently in the perception of Japanese art in the West throughout the twentieth century. For this unique ZOOM Gallery Talk, filmmaker Marty Gross shares with us his extraordinary mission to restore, record, preserve, and archive the films of and about Mingei from the early twentieth century in his project, Mingei Film Archive. He will share with us rare footage of prewar Japan and of pottery production in centers such as Tamba and Mashiko. As a potter himself, Marty Gross shares with us how the Mingei Film Archive developed and how his personal journey merged his two great artistic interests to create this remarkable and irreplaceable resource for ceramics and for Japanese art lovers.
PANELIST:
Marty Gross, filmmaker and founder of Mingei Film Archive, based in Toronto, Canada
moderated by Joan Mirviss
A recording of this event will be available on our website shortly.
To view our previous Zoom talks, please visit the VIDEO section of the website.
