Artists
Ogawa Machiko
- Born 1946 in Hokkaido, Japan. Based in Tokyo, Japan.
After graduating from the Tokyo University of the Arts with a degree in crafts, Ogawa studied ceramics at l’École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d’Art in Paris. After that, she spent three and a half years in West Africa as a research assistant for her husband, an anthropologist, learning local pottery techniques. During her time in Paris, through her visits to the Musée de Minéralogie Mines she came to understand that “form already exists” within the beauty of minerals. Taking advantage of properties such as distortion, crazing, chips, and glaze crawling, she creates utsuwa (vessels) encapsulating the dichotomy of making and breaking, and these works carry a kind of primordial power.
- Selected exhibitions
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- 2023
- Shiryū Morita/Machiko Ogawa, galerie frank elbaz (Paris, France)
- 2023
- Frieze Masters 2023 (London, UK)
- 2023
- Enamel and Body, Ginza Maison Hermes Le Forum (Tokyo, Japan)
- 2022
- Toucher le Feu, Musee national des arts asiatiques-Guimet (Paris, France)
- 2019
- Commision work, “Time Unearthed,” National Museum of Qatar (Doha)
- “Crystals and Memory: Five Mountains” 2020
- Photo: Tadayuki Minamoto
- Courtesy of Shibunkaku