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Jun Nishida

Jun Nishida (西田潤, Nishida Jun, 1977 – March 26, 2005) was a Japanese ceramicist. He is best known for his massive conceptual pottery pieces, which experiment with the material capacities of clay and the imaginative forms that ceramics could take amid the intense thermochemical conditions of the kiln. Throughout his brief yet productive career, Nishida pushed the boundaries of contemporary ceramics, challenging conventions of scale, abstraction, and method to produce a radically new visual language of pottery.

In his monumental series, ''Zetsu'' (絶) (2000-2005), Nishida melded porcelain pieces and powdered glaze into enormous agglomerations that would morph, crack, and distort in unpredictable fashion, which he proceeded to carve and chisel after removing from the kiln to produce evocative sculptural forms. The fourteen pieces in the series challenge the common perceptions of porcelain as a fragile and delicate material, and of glaze as an exterior treatment rather than a substrate in and of itself. Provided by Wikipedia