Kimiyo Mishima
Tokyo: Minami Gallery, 1974. Original document. Loose leaf. Large Quarto. 6pp. Original stiff illustrated wraps with black lettering on cover, protected by modern mylar. Announcement for an exhibition of works by Kimiyo Mishima at the Minami Gallery in Tokyo from February 18 to 28th of 1974. Kimiyo Mishima is best known for creating highly realistic versions of so-called "breakable printed matter" in ceramic, e.g. newspapers, comic books and boxes out of clay. Starting out as a painter in the early 1960s, se began working in ceramics in 1971. The announcement is Illustrated with six b/w illustrations of Mishima's work.
Mishima was a member of the "Dokuritsu" Art Association fro 1954 to 1969, showing his work continuously at their group exhibitions and was awarded the most prestigious prize of the organization. She exhibited her ceramics for the first time at the Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition in Tokyo, 1971. The exhibition traveled to Canada and the United States. In 1973 she exhibited at the XXXI International Competition of Contemporary Artistic Ceramics in Faenza, Italy, in 1973, and in the same year at the second Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition, again a traveling exhibition with several stops in South America. Text in Japanese and English. Some foxing on wraps and loose leaf. Very good condition. Item #50275
Price: $150.00