Hideyuki Ishibashi, Lumière (光 Hikari), 2025
Hideyuki Ishibashi’s approach combines ancient techniques and contemporary tools to reconstruct images at the boundary between the tangible and the imaginary.
Going back to his Japanese origins, Hideyuki focuses on the tragic Japanese event in 1944. Due to the scarcity of weapons, the Fujihira Togei pottery company gave the duty to schoolgirls and artisans to produce ceramic grenades for the Japanese army, during the war against the Americans. The government then buried these grenades in shame of the violent utility of Japanese ceramic traditions.
Hideyuki therefore went back to rediscover these buried grenades and reinvented new ones on the same basis, in collaboration with the same old pottery company. However, this time not as a weapon used for war, but as a beautiful single-flower vase, symbol of peace.
The ceramic grenades can contain water.
Signed and numbered at bottom
Clay, pigments made from shell (glaze), protective cotton naturally dyed with turmeric, in a paulownia wooden box.
Sculpture: 8.5 x 5.5 cm (3 1/2 x 2 in)
Box: 10 x 8.3 x 8.3 cm (4 x 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in)
Unique
Hideyuki Ishibashi, Lumière (光 Hikari), 2025
Hideyuki Ishibashi’s approach combines ancient techniques and contemporary tools to reconstruct images at the boundary between the tangible and the imaginary.
Going back to his Japanese origins, Hideyuki focuses on the tragic Japanese event in 1944. Due to the scarcity of weapons, the Fujihira Togei pottery company gave the duty to schoolgirls and artisans to produce ceramic grenades for the Japanese army, during the war against the Americans. The government then buried these grenades in shame of the violent utility of Japanese ceramic traditions.
Hideyuki therefore went back to rediscover these buried grenades and reinvented new ones on the same basis, in collaboration with the same old pottery company. However, this time not as a weapon used for war, but as a beautiful single-flower vase, symbol of peace.
The ceramic grenades can contain water.
Signed and numbered at bottom
Clay, pigments made from shell (glaze), protective cotton naturally dyed with turmeric, in a paulownia wooden box.
Sculpture: 8.5 x 5.5 cm (3 1/2 x 2 in)
Box: 10 x 8.3 x 8.3 cm (4 x 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in)
Unique
