Strange Clay review – gleeful globs, erupting goo and an octopus in the toilet
Adrian Searle, The Guardian
October 2022
Great globby gouts of shiny cerulean blue glaze slump and slide in an arrested, fused avalanche on a bare red column that’s taller than me. Something like a turd nestles on top of a misshapen, pistachio-coloured cupcake, and gold and red tears pattern a wonky blue shape that’s grown like fungus from the floor. Blackish congealed lumps of goo erupt through a golden glaze, and burst out through dense ultramarine.
The whole thing’s like a giant melting sundae, or one of those forms you might find next to a deep-sea vent where life should be impossible. All these startling, ravishing creations are by Hiroshima-born Takuro Kuwata, their surface treatment developed from the glazes and techniques employed to decorate the humble bowls used in the Japanese tea ceremony. […]