Jun Kaneko (Japanese, b. 1942)
Untitled, 2003
Glazed ceramic
Gift of Alan Ginsburg. 2017.17
Jun Kaneko
Jun Kaneko was born in Nagoya, Japan in 1942, and he currently maintains a studio in Omaha, Nebraska. Kaneko is a pioneer in the realm of monumental ceramics, but he also works in other media, including sumi ink on paper, acrylic on canvas, bronze and glass sculpture, textile design, and opera production design.
In 2012, he was hired as a set designer for a rendition of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 1791 masterpiece The Magic Flute at the San Francisco Opera, where he displayed two monumental ceramic heads—much like this work—in front of the opera house.
This sculpture from Kaneko’s Head series is an example of the large ceramic works for which Kaneko is best known. He considers the series to still be in an early “experimental stage,” referencing the various questions that remain in his mind about the effects generated upon viewing the works. Regardless, Kaneko is one of the only artists in the world to produce and glaze by hand ceramics at this scale.
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