Ken Matsuzaki Ceramics Exhibition Walkthrough. Tōkaiseki |

Join us for a guided walkthrough of Goldmark’s 7th exhibition of ceramics by Ken Matsuzaki, one of Japan’s most revered living potters. When travel to that country is impossible for most, this will be a fascinating opportunity to enjoy Japanese art first-hand and to experience Matsuzaki’s famous Tōkaiseki-style vases in the flesh. The exhibition will showcase 120 pots, among them 50 vases in Matsuzaki’s innovative Tokaiseki style. A technique of Matsuzaki’s own invention, these sculptural works are not thrown but hewn, carved and torn from hollowed blocks of clay on a potter’s wheel using a variety of tools – from knives and wooden scrapers to wire, fingers, thumbs and even fistfuls of clay itself. Developed over many years, these forms now represent a distillation of Matsuzaki’s enigmatic, tour-de-force approach to his medium. 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, 6