[Tokyo] ”CIRCLE/SQUARE/STRIPE/WRAPPIN” Exhibition Kaoru MOCHIZUKI, Tetsuya ANDO - Dec.11th(Sat)- Dec 26th(Sun), 2021-

Kaoru MOCHIZUKI, Tetsuya ANDO『OFF THE WALL?』(2021) pottery, sheep leather
A work that partly wraps the ceramic skateboard deck that was shaped by soil and baked.


”CIRCLE/SQUARE/STRIPE/WRAPPIN” Exhibition
Kaoru MOCHIZUKI
Tetsuya ANDO
Dec.11th(Sat)- Dec.26th(Sun), 2021
10am-6pm (Open every day during the event)
＊The artists will be in the gallery on Saturday and Sunday afternoon during the exhibition.
Venue: MIZOE ART GALLERY TOKYO

Archaeological sites or excavated ritual implements with the geometric design after Bauhaus, a folk art with industrial design, or Morandi's still life with detonating sound of punk-rock. Kaoru MOCHIZUKI feels effects from both of such contradicting images to pursue attracting line, form, and texture of rotating soil created by a potter's wheel.

The exhibition title "CIRCLE/SQUARE/STRIPE/WRAPPIN" refers to the characteristics of Kaoru MOCHIZUKI's artwork, "circle", "stripes", and the contradiction of "black and white". Also, we introduce "WRAPPIN" by Tetsuya ANDO who is recently collaborating with Kaoru MOCHIZUKI for which he reconstructed the theory of Kintsugi, a Japanese traditional technique. He reproduced scratches and cracks as a new attraction by wrapping cracks and distorted parts that appeared through the making process using leather.

〈Exhibiting Artist〉
Kaoru MOCHIZUKI
Born in Tokyo in 1973. Developing “ILL CERAMICS” as his brand. In 1999, he graduated from Ceramics major at the Department of Design and Applied Arts in Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts. Graduated from Tajimi City Pottery Design and Technical Center in 2002. A number of solo and group exhibitions. Recently, he also held a solo exhibition in a gallery in Hong Kong.



The three at the center are the artworks by Kaoru MOCHIZUKI.

Tetsuya ANDO
Born in 1979. He has worked as TETSUYA ANDO [ T.A.S ] since 2011. Since 2014, he has exhibited 2～4 times per year in Paris. In 2020, he held an exhibition "LEATHER DRESSED CERAMIC" collaborating with Kaoru MOCHIZUKI at SAVOIR VIVRE. He also collaborates with a variety of artists to create artworks.


The four works on the far left are the collaboration works for which Tetsuya ANDO reproduced Kaoru MOCHIZUKI's pottery (B) by wrapping them with leather.