Morino Hiroaki Taimei is a Japanese ceramicist best known for his hand-built works that demonstrate a mastery of design and form, focusing on surface designs and patterns in coloured glazes.
Morino Hiroaki Taimei was born into a three-generation potting family in Kyoto, but did not study under his father, instead training at Kyoto City University of Arts. There he studied under Tomimoto Kenkichi who had founded the ceramics department there, and can be seen to have had a profound influence on Morino’s interest in design. He then returned to build his own studio. Another influential time in his career was spent in the US, teaching at the University of Chicago in 1962-3 and again in 1966-8. Morino spent time travelling around the US, as well as widely in Europe, including a visit to Bernard Leach in England. He has had a prolific career within Japan, participating in over 100 exhibitions, and is well-known internationally due to his travels.
Morino Hiraoki Taimei forms are hand-built, he explores his interest in surface design and pattern with layers of colourful glazes. His interest in abstract shapes is clear in his decorative schemes, but he departs from strict lines of geometry and there retains a softness and natural quality to his pieces. He speaks of this marriage of form and design, articulating his aims in making as ‘designs born of solids, solids born of designs’. His works can be recognised from two predominant decorative schemes, one that combines tones of pitted blue glazes with gold flashes, and another with black designs on muted red grounds.
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Dates
1934 Born in Kyoto, Japan
1960 Graduated Kyoto City University
1962-3, 1966-8 Teaching at University of Chicago
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