Representative work by Shigekazu Nagae
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Shigekazu Nagae

b. 1953, Seto, Aichi Prefecture, Japan · Based in Seto, Japan

  • Seto Ceramic High School (1974)
  • Porcelain
  • Ceramic Sculpture

Shigekazu Nagae is an innovator of porcelain sculpture who exploits the natural sagging and curvature of clay during high-temperature firings. Suspending thin sheets of slip-cast porcelain on delicate ceramic armatures, he allows gravity and heat to sculpt curved, parchment-like sculptures of astonishing lightness.

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