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Saturday, July 12, 2025


Exhibition Public - USA & Canada

Transcendent Clay: The Kondō Family’s Path of Porcelain Innovations

Minneapolis Institute of Art
2400 Third Avenue South,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Mar 01, 2025 To Sep 07, 2025


Detail: Spanning almost a century of creativity, “Transcendent Clay” offers a panoramic look at the achievements of the Kondō family of ceramicists based in Kyoto, Japan. The legacy of porcelain-making began with Kondō Yūzō (1902–1985) in the 1930s and continued with his sons Yutaka (1932–1983) and Hiroshi (1936–2012), who broke free to pursue original, individual expressions. Ultimately it was the grandson Takahiro (born 1958) who emerged as the family’s greatest innovator by developing the secret technique of applying a “silver mist” (gintekisai) of metallic droplets to his modern forms.

This exhibition brings together a wide range of works including freehand-painted vases, pure-white jars, and Takahiro’s dramatic shapes and textures, which he describes as “water born from fire.” Most of the works are from the collection of Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz, long-time supporters of Mia.

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