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Following last year’s presentation of Tori Kudo’s ceramics at our Brooklyn gallery space, Blank Forms publishes the exhibition’s accompanying limited-edition catalog. With images captured on film by musician and photographer Lary 7, Tori Kudo: Ceramics documents the work displayed in the artist’s first exhibition in the United States. Designed by Alec Mapes-Frances and available exclusively at Blank Forms, this hardcover art book features thirty color photographs of the vessels with Kudo’s commentary on their forms and functions. Ceramics, Tori Kudo says, is a “half-guaranteed chance operation.” Kudo, who once described himself as the “king of error,” regards relinquishing all expectations for his work as the foundation of his artistic output. For the past five decades, he has eschewed any pretense of control in his highly-improvisational music—assembling ragtag groups of untrained musicians to perform as his Maher Shalal Hash Baz ensemble, playing in a series of blink-and-you-miss-them psych-punk and noise bands in the ’70s and ’80s, and, he says, borrowing instruments for gigs from anyone who happens to be near the venue. In many ways, Kudo’s improvisations are controlled chaos, and this modus operandi stems, certainly, from his radical anarchist roots. But it is from this chaos that Kudo finds form, in both his sound and ceramics. Kudo came of age in the ceramics workshop of his father, an art informel painter-turned-working-craftsman who practiced in the Tobe ware manner. Tobe ware, also known as Tobe-yaki, has been produced in Kudo’s native Ehime prefecture since the end of the eighteenth century and is known for its distinctive indigo designs set against brilliant white porcelain. In Kudo’s hand, this tradition is honored, warped, and expanded. His loose and playful forms are decorated with gestural brushstrokes and swirling, organic designs. When asked if, in his experimental style, he still regards his practice as part of the Tobe ware tradition, Kudo responded: “I dare say I am Tobe ware.”

ceramic works 2000-2020 full color printing B6 size 388p limited to 100copies

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6寸　20cm 7.8inch

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6寸　20cm 7.8imch

6寸　20cm 7.8imch

6寸　20cm 7.8imch

6寸　20cm 7.8imch

6寸　20cm 7.8imch

6寸　20cm 7.8imch

6寸　20cm 7.8imch

6寸　20cm 7.8imch

6寸　20cm 7.8imch

6寸　20cm 7.8imch

6寸　20cm 7.8imch

6寸　20cm 7.8imch

6寸　20cm 7.8imch

6寸　20cm 7.8imch

6寸　20cm 7.8imch

023.3.4-4.1 Voidギャラリーでの展示の記録 A5サイズ74P CD-R付きはLTD50 14曲入り A record of the exhibition magazine A5 size 74p LTD50 with CD-R(14track) Published by void gallery 1.Pelican of Wilderness 02:35 2.追悼 01:22 3.鹿 02:14 4.AI Joe（Ferry） 03:15 5.AI Joe 03:54 6.春なのに 03:10 7.maher shalal hash baz w/eddiemacon - Hiroshi des Rallies est décédé. On dit qu'il a écrit la ligne de basse de la chanson Night of the Assassin 10:50 8.maher shalal hash baz - pelican of wilderness 02:45 9.maher shalal hash baz - 追悼 02:05 10.maher shalal hash baz - 鹿 02:43 11.maher shalal hash baz - 下​鴨​yugue​に​て 01:05 12.maher shalal hash baz - 春 01:05 13.maher shalal hash baz - kamakura 03:04 14.AI Joe 04:17

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