On View In:
Gallery 266-G274
Artist:   Yoshimi Futamura  
Title:   Cercle  
Date:   2010  
Medium:   Stoneware with embedded pre-fired white porcelain  
Dimensions:   6 1/2 × 20 3/4 × 19 3/4 in. (16.51 × 52.71 × 50.17 cm)  
Credit Line:   Gift of the Clark Center for Japanese Art & Culture  
Location:   Gallery 266-G274  

Yoshimi created a charred appearance, like burnt firewood, to evoke the scarring yet naturally beautiful effects of fire. Except for brief stints as an artist-in-residence in Japan and China, she has lived and worked in France.

Artist/Creator(s)     
Name:   Futamura, Yoshimi  
Nationality:   Japanese  
Life Dates:   Japanese, b. 1959  
 

Object Description  
  
Inscriptions:    
Classification:   Ceramics  
Physical Description:   open circle that appears to be rotting tire or circluar piece of wood; white/brown  
Accession #:   2013.29.1256  
Owner:   The Minneapolis Institute of Arts