Kino Satoshi 木野智史

Kino Satoshi, born in 1987, began creating ceramics as a teenager. Within ten years, he had his first solo exhibition at the New Taipei City Yingge Ceramic Museum in Taiwan. Fascinated by the potential of fired porcelain to transform into stone when polished, Kino chose to focus on it. His sculptures resemble long, undulating ribbons of cetadon-glazed porcelain. After drying, he carefully sands the entire work before baking the biscuit. Then, before the final firing, he applies a translucent bluish-white glaze (seihakuji) before firing in a reducing atmosphere. For many of his works, Kino draws inspiration from Japanese words describing the natural world.

Presence in permanent museum collections:

• Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA Ceramics Museum, Hyogo, Japan
• Ceramics Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan
• International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy
• Marratxi Museum, Majorca, Spain
• National Museum of Slovenia
• Newark Museum, USA