Review: Takuro Kuwata, Alison Jacques Gallery
Anna Sansom, DAMN° magazine
November 2016
For his first solo exhibition in London, Japanese artist Takuro Kuwata has made brightly coloured ceramics, some toweringly huge, others ornamentally small, that reveal adventurous techniques and an exuberant vision.
Born in Hiroshima, the 35-year-old artist grew up in the shadow of the aftermath of the Second World War and the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima. His artworks are instilled with a joyful vision for post-war Japan and a cathartic way of approaching the issue of destruction and recent natural disasters, such as the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake. […]