Sasayama Tadayasu 1939-  Japan

 

Sasayama's recent works “Four Cubes” and “Ring of Cubes” are (….) simple rectangular or cube forms, while exhibiting beauty and power on their own (…..) The metal legs attached to each form float them into the air or make them seem even lighter,  (....) fusing stillness and motion, presence and space to create a large-scale “environment” that is rarely achieved in ceramic art.

 

Sasayama Tadayasu's work has evolved in this way, from “plane” to “space,” from “space” to “environment.” In spite of these changes, however, his basic stance has remained constant: to establish his work as sculptural expression in the context of modern art.

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Excerpt taken from The Art of Sasayama Tadayasu —Seeking Possibilities of Ceramic Modernism by Inui Yoshiaki

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