Anjin
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"Les jeunes années - Young days" Céramique et mixed media 57 x 37,5 x 37,5 cm |
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The Ceramic Art of Anjin ABE
Anjin ABE remains a mysterious artist. His production ranges widely from traditional Bizen pottery craft designed for ceremonial tea to porcelains and sculpted works, "objects" for which he uses various materials. His art also extends to oil painting, lacquer, bronze (both free-standing sculpture and bas-reliefs). He creates works on a huge scale and monuments...
Recently, he has been focusing his talent on Bizen-style ceramics, but this hardly means that his other undertakings remain mere sidelines or personal musings. All his works show a spécial richness and the same perfection. One could say he is a protean artist, but, as opposed to those of other talented creators, ABE's works are never anything but authentic: a sign of the level of his technique. As for the artist and near-genius Rosanjin KITAOJI, he revived several styles, particularly in ceramics but also in calligraphy, sea-making...Even with him, I sometimes sense a lack of fineness; technique is often this Achilles heel.
But here, we can feel nothing unpleasing. The works are uniformely in a direct style, simple and steeped in dignity. ABE's work applies to ceramics, with paintings as with sculpture, with all the totally natural strength of a creative instinct.
