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Ceramic Artist Katsunori Nakashima at the International Ceramics Symposium at Innsbruck, Tirol 2005 |
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Rediscovering Ceramics as Art |
| The first International Ceramics Symposium was held in Innsbruck, the capital of the state of Tirol. A city of history and culture surrounded by the extensive Nature of Central Europe, Innsbruck may be reckoned an appropriate location for cultural exchange among its own artists and those from elsewhere. Although the city has a university boasting a tradition of several hundred years, it lacks a faculty of fine arts and so other forms are required for the development of the arts and building a constructive position for the arts within society. Ceramics is the oldest of the mankind's crafts and its material (earth) the most important, but evidently has yet to gain recognition as an art not only in Austria but in other countries around the world. The First Innsbruck International Ceramics Symposium invited outstanding working contemporary ceramics artists from Japan, Austria, Italy, Russia and the countries of Eastern Europe for a symposium, exhibition and workshops. Through the mutual exchange of opinions among the participants, international exchange in the production process and the display of the various modalities of contemporary ceramics, the objective was to encourage deeper appreciation of ceramics and its further development. Working exchanges of local youth with potters both local and visiting are bound to lead to new insights into the process of creation and to deep mutual influence in spiritual energy. We hope that this will further lead to deeper mutual understanding between Japan and Europe in contemporary ceramics. |
| Period： | 9-24 July 2005 |
| Venue： | High School for nursery pedagogy, Innsbruck |
| Inquiry： | Ms. Gabriela Nepo-Stieldorf Gutenbergstraze 1, A-6020, Innsbruck 0043-512-563921 or 0043-664-5420943 E-mail：gabriela@nepo-stieldorf.at |
| show rooms in the foyer of the imperial palace of Innsbruck, Rennweg Gallery Nothbruga Innrain 41, 6020 Innsbruck
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A work of Katsunori Nakashima |
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| "Crane Vase" (photo：Gallery Kenbishi), |
from Kusaomi Kuroda, 125 Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Artists [Gendai Nihon no Togeika 125-nin], Shogakukan | |
| Japanese participants：Katsunori Nakashima |
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| Nakashima Katsunori was born in Seto. Aichi prefecture in 1963. Having graduated From Aichi Prefectural Seto Ceramic High Scool, he went to Mexico in 1986 to teach at Toluca School of Pottery and Porcelain. During his stay in Mexico, he also showed his works in the group exhibition. Returning to Japan in 1991, he continued to produce the ceramic works at the studio of Ryoji Koie in Kitashitara-gun in the Aichi prefecture. Since the first solo exhibition in 1992, he keep showing new works in 7 or 8 solo exhibitions every year at the galleries in Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka and the various cities in Japan. Currently lives and works in Seto. |
| participants Masamichi Yoshikawa, Satoru Hoshino（Japan） Imre Schrammel（Hungary/a former president of Budapest University） Annamaria Gelmi, Giovanni Cimatti（Italy） Franz Josef Altenburg 、Peter Weihs (Austria) |
| Organized by： | Austrian ministry, art department tirolian government city of Innsbruck |
| Supported by： | Hypo Tirol-Bank / Schenker-Art-Transport / M&M catering / -building materials /AFT-ceramic materials |
| Cooperation： | Gallery Nothburga /   etc. |
| Inquiry ： | 0043-512-563921 or 0043-664-5420943 E-mail：gabriela@nepo-stieldorf.at |
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