Keiji Ito was born in Toki City in 1935, where he still lives and works. He graduated from the Musashino Art University in 1958. He hasn’t been influenced by the tradition, he has reached personal results realizing tridimensional forms of great impact, reminding of primitive forms. He doesn’t glaze his sculptures, in this way you can see all the asperities of the rough surface. The roughness is one of the elements for which many of his works can be defined shibui: something simple, but at the same time refined ...
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Keiji Ito was born in Toki City in 1935, where he still lives and works. He graduated from the Musashino Art University in 1958. He hasn’t been influenced by the tradition, he has reached personal results realizing tridimensional forms of great impact, reminding of primitive forms. He doesn’t glaze his sculptures, in this way you can see all the asperities of the rough surface. The roughness is one of the elements for which many of his works can be defined shibui: something simple, but at the same time refined and elegant. Three important series in his production are Hiroshima, Chinmoku (Silence), and Shakudo (Measure). His artworks have been exposed in many exhibitions, in particular at the Officine Saffi Gallery: Yugen. Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, a group show of five Japanese artists, in 2016; Shibui, with the works of Kazuhito Nagasawa, in 2017; A Thing of Beauty, in 2019.
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