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Work 21 - C4 2021

Artwork Work 21 - C4 this artwork made of Screenprinted and hand-coloured ceramic, iron, created in 2021-01-01
Accession No.
2021.313a-mmmm
Date Created
2021
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Contemporary Asian Art
Dimensions A
81 x 56 x 56cm
Media Category
Ceramic
Medium
Screenprinted and hand-coloured ceramic, iron
Place Created
Osaka, Japan
Credit Line
The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian Art.
Purchased 2021 with funds from Michael Sidney Myer through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation

Japanese artist Kimiyo Mishima skilfully recreates throwaway objects – such as newspapers, drink cans and cardboard boxes – as highly realistic hand-painted ceramics. The artworks Work 19 – G (G standing for ‘garbage’) and Work 21 – C4 (C for ‘cans’) speak to the tradition of the still life to painstakingly capture the everyday, but draw attention to the disposable nature of manmade products. In her work, Mishima uses a valuable and fragile ceramic medium to elevate the value and status of the objects and rally against wasteful overconsumption.

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A close-up photograph of many colourful, crushed soda cans in an iron trashcan. (These realistic cans are in fact ceramic, made by Kimiyo Mishima.)
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A close-up photograph of many colourful, crushed soda cans in an iron trashcan. (These realistic cans are in fact ceramic, made by Kimiyo Mishima.)
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Kimiyo Mishima's ceramic 'trash'

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Exhibitions featuring this object

A work on copper depicting silhouettes of people emerging from bamboo shoots. / Lee Paje / The Philippines b.1980 / The stories that weren’t told (detail) 2019 / Oil on copper mounted on wood / Purchased 2021 with funds from Terry and Mary Peabody and Mary-Jeanne Hutchinson through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / Collection: QAGOMA / © Lee Paje

‘The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial’

Dec 2021 - Apr 2022

Anne Noble / New Zealand b.1954 / Dead Bee Portrait #1 2015, printed 2018 / Pigment on archival paper / The Taylor Family Collection. Purchased 2019 with funds from Paul, Sue and Kate Taylor through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / © Anne Noble

‘Still Life Now’

Oct 2022 - Mar 2023

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