Masaomi Yasunaga: Empty Landscape

Based in Mie, Japan, artist Masaomi Yasunaga creates experimental forms that, according to the gallery, exist “somewhere between utile vessel and sculptural object.” Rather than building his forms out of raw clay, Yasunaga seems to employ core elements of earthy rubble, bound together with glaze, wood-fired, “excavated,” then installed in the gallery on raised beds of gravel. It is as if they have been retrieved from the matter on which they rest, bestowing them with an archaeological presence that persists across time and place.