78. Daisuke Yamagishi  山岸 大祐

Daisuke Yamagishi was born in 1984 in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture. He graduated from Aichi University, Department of Art Education in 2008 and was given a solo exhibition at INAX Galleria Ceramica in Tokyo as early as 2007, even before his graduation. In 2012, he established a workshop in Toyota City. Daisuke Yamagishi makes white ceramic objects, with a unique shape, where the outer wall of the pot is hollowed out and a nested structure is created inside. The thin, white and elongated forms are graceful and playful but also demonstrate his unmatched technique of creating such an ingenious interplay of lines and shapes in clay. Daisuke Yamagichi creates ultra-modern work, but takes as his starting point the origins of ceramics: making vessels. He sees these vessels as an idea of space and boundaries where space is created by cutting open the belly of the pot and placing a second bowl or pot-like form inside. To create balance, he leaves long slender columns that rise in straight or sinuous lines from the original base and become a new form. Elegant and refined, they seem to stretch out like a ballerina on her pointe, or like a white orchid rising from the bottom. Daisuke Yamagishi's works are always gracefully slender and masterfully designed, offering the viewer a variety of impressions.

Daisuke has many solo exhibitions to his credit and participates in major art fairs.