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For the past five years, the MNAAG has made the ceramics of Japanese women a major focus of its collection development policy.
In 2016, it acquired its first piece of white porcelain by the ceramist Hitomi Hosono (born 1979). Her work, emblematic of the creativity of contemporary ceramics ...
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FRENCH LANGUAGE
For the past five years, the MNAAG has made the ceramics of Japanese women a major focus of its collection development policy.
In 2016, it acquired its first piece of white porcelain by the ceramist Hitomi Hosono (born 1979). Her work, emblematic of the creativity of contemporary ceramics in Japan, in which women are at the forefront, initiated a reflection on the museum's openness to this artistic field: contemporary Japanese ceramics is one of the most dynamic in the world; it also poses in an exemplary way the question of the specificity of women's creation.
These artists gained access to the practice of ceramics thanks to the training courses that were opened to them in art schools only after the Second World War, in 1945 for the Kyoto University of the Arts, in 1952 for the Tokyo University of the Arts. After centuries of prohibition, women now had "access to fire".
Following a line of action supported by the Ministry of Culture, the MNAAG has since continued to enrich its collections in this field, where the place of the "woman artist" is both singular and eminent, with the acquisition of ten 20th and 21st century works.
Exhibition at the musée national des arts asiatiques - Guimet from 1st June to 3 October 2022
French language
45 pages / 28 illustrations
Rmn-Grand Palais with the Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet
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