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Annely Juda Fine Art is pleased to announce its participation at Art Collaboration Kyoto (ACK) 2024 in partnership with Mitochu Koeki, Tokyo. Following on from our landmark 2022 exhibition of works by Kasimir Malevich and Raku Kichizaemon XV Jikinyū in London, which were also shown at the Sagawa Art Museum in Moriyama, Japan the year before, we are excited to once again present works by these two artists together in Kyoto.
Kasimir Malevich, born in Kiev in 1879, was a pivotal avant-garde artist, celebrated as the father of Suprematism and a pioneer of non-objective art. His most representative works, Black Square (1915) and White on White (1918), are seminal modernist works that significantly influenced the development of 20th-century abstract art and minimalism.
Raku Jikinyū, born in Kyoto in 1949, has devoted his career to exploring the possibilities of the traditional tea bowl format in a constant search for new modes of expression. His tea bowls are characterised by bold sculptural trimming and the creative use of the yakinuki firing method. Notably, Jikinyu has cited the impact of Malevich’s Black Square on his artistic practice, describing his encounter with the work in Moscow in 2015 as a formative experience: “Its pure blackness has long affected me and has rooted itself deeply into my consciousness.”
At ACK 2024, we will present a selection of Raku Jikinyū’s tea bowls from the White Rock and Black Rock series (2021-2024), alongside a collection of Malevich’s pencil drawings from the height of the Suprematist movement.
Annely Juda Fine Art and Mitochu Koeki are delighted to be exhibiting together at ACK 2024, an art fair dedicated to fostering distinctive collaborations between Japanese and International galleries.
Images:
Raku Kichizaemon XV Jikinyū, Sū (things that rise majestically upwards are also noble) 2023, Yakinuki-type ‘Rock’ Black Raku tea bowl, 12.1 x 12.5 x 9.5 cm
Kasimir Malevich, Cosmic Composition with dissolving plan motifs of 1916 and 1917, version 1918, pencil on paper, 20 x 16.5