Sten A Olssons Kulturstipendium 2019 exhibition at Gothenburg Museum of Art
7 December 2019—23 February 2020
Ceramic objects in gardens shrouded by darkness. The exhibition year 2019 finishes with a polyphonic presentation, in which three artists show newly produced works that now meet the public for the first time.
The Sten A Olsson Foundation for Research and Culture is an important contributor to culture in Gothenburg. For over twenty years, the Foundation has awarded many training scholarships to talented practitioners in art, music, theatre, dance, literature, design and stage design. The Foundation has also supported many different research and culture projects in Sweden. This year, the Sten A Olsson Culture Scholarship has been awarded to seven cultural practitioners to stimulate their artistic development. An exhibition featuring the artists Eva Löfdahl, Masayoshi Oya and Martha Ossowska Persson, three of the scholars, opens on 7 December. As usual, each artist is represented with several works.
Masayoshi Oya (b 1979) was born in Japan, trained in Japan and in Sweden, and has worked in Gothenburg for many years. In the media of ceramics and with great precision, he creates both practical and artistic pieces as well as sculptures that challenge our preconceptions about what ceramics can be.
Motivations:
»With superb technique and a keen awareness of the possibilities of ceramics, Masayoshi Oya creates objects whose pace varies from fast to slow. His ceramics combine a strict formality with painterly and sculptural gestures that add an element of anxiety and contrast. Sharply defined contours of ceramic vessels are posed against wild brushstrokes and parts where thin chunks of clay build up flower-like forms. He stages a fascinating world of things in which the combinations of forms and glazings always seem to be moving toward something novel, never seen before.
For an artistic practice that unites curiosity and sensuality, transforming ceramic vessels into concentrated poetic statements, Masayoshi Oya has been awarded the 2019 Scholarship from the Sten A Olsson Foundation for Research and Culture.«
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If nothing else is given, photo: Hossein Sehatlou