While admittedly it's a field for insiders

"It must be modest but not junk, cheap but not fragile." Dishonesty, perversity, luxury, that's what Mingei objects must most avoid: what is natural, sincere, sure, simple, such are the characteristics of the Mingei. "In 1933, the artist Soetsu Yanagi stated the idea of a new both aesthetic object, in connection with the heir to the Japanese tradition and nature. The Museum of the quay Branly in Paris, dedicated an exhibition to the Mingei spirit until January 11. At Drouot K. cabinet places for sale, November 5, 114 pieces of contemporary Japanese ceramics which are derived from this principle. The interest is twofold: discover of artists very little known in France and who have mastered, each in their genus, their discipline, but at the same time, access to works at affordable prices, compared to the usual fare of contemporary art these parts are indeed available to price between 200 and 5,000 euros. While admittedly it's a field for insiders.

The tea ceremony

In London, Bonhams sales House presents a few lots of the genus, from time to time. In Brussels, the Gallery to Jean-Marie Giraud, specialist in contemporary decorative arts shows an artist of this vein, Kimura Yoshiro and New York that advocates also the famous designer Ron Arad, Barry Friedman Gallery, exposes such as Kishi Eiko. In France exposure made date in the field: "Toji, avant-garde and tradition of Japanese ceramics. It was in 2006 at the Museum of Sevres. The event, Alexandra Jaffré, K. Cabinet, held all these auctions by directly contacting the artists in collaboration with a specialist in the subject, Yuka Mikagi. "Parts detach from the function of the object." "When you see, it takes consciousness immediately, it is works of art," said the expert Jean - Marcel K.. The Japanese maestria for ceramics is a tradition at the tea ceremony, but it is now influenced by different trends of the contemporary art of minimalism to more naturalistic expressions. However, it requires a great technical mastery through a control perfect cooking and enamel. According to Jean - Marcel K. estimate prices have been negotiated down with these artists catalogue to encourage the birth of a Parisian market. Some designs are a remarkable aesthetic. The work of Yoshimi Futamura (born 1959), for example, presents itself as a cauldron towering 44 cm in diameter. It is in sandstone, dusted porcelain. By its gross appearance, she suggests to work in the ceramics of the famous Italian conceptual artist, Lucio Fontana. Chieko Katsumata (born 1950), which was formed in Sèvres creates forms mineral or vegetable imaginary, as this sculpture in sandstone covered with a red powdery coating which takes both pumpkin and the shape of a sofa of the years 60 (estimated 2,500 euros). In the exhibition catalogue cover Toji was a piece of Takayuki Sakiyama (born 1958), a vase in sandstone underglaze incised spiral lines. A similar piece is proposed at Drouot with an estimate of 4,200 euros. In 1903 the first Japanese association of ceramists was called "The garden of ceramics of pleasure". These pieces open eyes on "a garden of pleasure", version contemporary, rather unusual to be underlined.