Ken Matsuzaki Major Ceramics Walkthrough | GOLDMARK

In this walkthrough, Max talks over Ken Matsuzaki's 8th Major Exhibition at The Goldmark Gallery. FULL SUITE OF WORK: https://www.goldmarkart.com/collectio... Ken Matsuzaki, born in Tokyo (1950), studied at Tamagawa University’s College of Arts before taking on an apprenticeship in the famous pottery town of Mashiko, 60 miles north of the capital, where his studio is still situated to this day. Matsuzaki was apprenticed to once Living National Treasure Tatsuzo Shimaoka, himself the pupil of Living National Treasure Shoji Hamada, arguably the most famous potter of the 20th century. Where a lesser artist might have suffocated under such influences, Matsuzaki – like his teacher before him – has since established a ceramic voice distinctly and definitively his own. Extending far beyond the traditional boundaries of the town’s ‘Mashiko style’, Matsuzaki has embraced Japan’s rich ceramic history and expanded into its wildly different pottery schools: from emerald green Oribe work to yellow Kiseto, luscious pink and metallic gold Shino to his astonishing Yohen pots, veiled in layers of natural ash that have built up over 10-day firings in Matsuzaki’s enormous climbing kiln.