Machiko Ogawa

MACHIKO OGAWA

Untitled, 2016 porcelain 16.9 x 42.3 x 44 cm MO-0007

Front and back cover Untitled, 2015 porcelain 33 x 19 x 34 cm MO-0027

Machiko Ogawa 8 June - 3 July 2016

PRIVATE VIEW:

Tuesday 7 June, 6-8pm, Artist Present

Please note that in addition to our regular Tuesday - Saturday hours, the exhibition will also be open on Sunday, the 3rd of July.

Erskine, Hall & Coe 15 Royal Arcade 28 Old Bond Street London W1S 4SP +44 (0) 20 7491 1706 mail@erskinehallcoe.com Gallery Opening Hours: Tuesday - Saturday: 10am - 6pm

Untitled, 2015 porcelain with silica sand and Feldspar 17.6 x 64.3 x 44.8 cm MO-0002

The bowl as an eternal being I cherish something that I keep by my side and is part of my everyday life. It always speaks to me. It is a big bowl of red soil made by Ogawa Machiko san.

I am sure that everyone is moved when they see her aesthetic and the thoughts that permeate her work. The primordial forms appear as though they had sprung from the earth itself. Poetic visions come to mind: images of antiquities, ruins‌ We are drawn into her world.

I feel overwhelmed by her tremendous spirit when I look at some of the work that will be shown in London. Delicate jade-color glazes that remain in the bottom of bowls that look like broken shards of ancient earthenware; and that suggest the deposition of memories and time. I hear that this is the first time that Ogawa san will be showing her work in Europe. I am convinced that they will leave a profound imprint upon people’s sensibilities.

Issey Miyake, 2016

Untitled, 2015 porcelain 9.5 x 35.2 x 28.2 cm MO-0017

Untitled, 2015 porcelain 9 x 26.5 x 14.6 cm MO-0018

Untitled, 2015 porcelain 18 x 34.8 x 28 cm MO-0016

Untitled, 2015 porcelain with silica sand and Feldspar 16.7 x 65 x 42 cm MO-0004

detail of MO-0010

Untitled, 2015 porcelain with silica sand and Feldspar 11.2 x 26.5 cm MO-0008

Untitled, 2015 porcelain with silica sand and Feldspar 10.5 x 26.5 cm MO-0009

Untitled, 2015 porcelain with silica sand and Feldspar 10 x 28 cm MO-0010

detail of MO-0011

Untitled, 2015 porcelain 8.3 x 22.3 cm MO-0011

Untitled, 2015 porcelain 8.8 x 22.5 cm MO-0012

Untitled, 2015 porcelain with silica sand and Feldspar 22.1 x 64.5 x 28.5 cm MO-0001

Untitled, 2016 porcelain 13 x 43.5 x 22 cm MO-0005

Untitled, 2015 porcelain 30 x 21.5 x 13.6 cm MO-0013

Bowl, 2016 earthenware 7 x 9.3 x 8.7 cm MO-0023

Bowl, 2016 earthenware 6.7 x 9.1 x 8.8 cm MO-0022

Tea Bowl, 2014 earthenware 9.1 x 12.8 x 13 cm MO-0020

Tea Bowl, 2015 earthenware 9.9 x 15 x 13.4 cm MO-0019

Tea Bowl, 2015 earthenware 8.9 x 14.5 x 14.6 cm MO-0021

Bowl, 2015 earthenware 6.3 x 8.8 x 8 cm MO-0028

Untitled, 2016 porcelain 14.2 x 55.1 x 30.7 cm MO-0006

Untitled, 2015 porcelain 16 x 27 x 21.8 cm MO-0014

Untitled, 2015 porcelain 26.9 x 25 x 16.4 cm MO-0015

Incense Box for Tea Ceremony, 2014 porcelain 10 x 9.4 x 5.9 cm MO-0025

Incense Box for Tea Ceremony, 2014 porcelain 5.4 x 15.8 x 6.7 cm MO-0026

Machiko Ogawa Born in 1946 in Sapporo, a city of the Hokkaido Prefecture of Japan, Machiko Ogawa studied crafts at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and graduated in 1969. From there, she went on to study ceramics at l’École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d’Art in Paris until 1971, and then in Burkina Faso, West Africa until 1975.

Untitled, 2014 earthenware 12.6 x 19.2 x 17.5 cm MO-0024

Machiko Ogawa’s work is deeply influenced by her travels as well as her fascination with fossils, minerals and the earth. She has explored many diverse places including Sub-Saharan Africa and South America.

Public Collections Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture, Hanford, USA Gitter-Yelen Foundation and Art Study Center, California, USA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, USA Musée Tomo, Tokyo, Japan The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Japan The Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, USA Sōgetsu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu, Japan Tokyo Opera City Cultural Foundation, Tokyo, Japan Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA

The exhibition is illustrated online at www.erskinehallcoe.com/exhibitions/machiko-ogawa-2016/ Design by fivefourandahalf Printed by Witherbys Lithoflow Printing Photography by Michael Harvey

The earth, as an Utsuwa,* embraces pottery fragments brimmed with water. This water contains human thoughts.

The Utsuwa, as a form, is a tradition that has continued for thousands of years since the Jōmon era. People have many different conceptions of the Utsuwa, and I believe that it helps us to understand the activities of humanity.

I have always been charmed by historical traces of human activity such as fossils, minerals and archaeological artefacts. Fragments of Utsuwa represent to me their lost time and memory.

I wish to create work that brings awareness to fundamental existence. The feeling of wanting to discover a new world which has never been seen before drives me to create new ceramics.

This will be my first solo exhibition in Europe.

Through my work, I am excited to explore new ideas and form relationships with the people who encounter it.

Machiko Ogawa, May 2016 *Utsuwa is a Japanese expression for ‘container’.