Why I Create
Takuro Kuwata, Phaidon
September 2017
An emphasis on a certain formal instability, and the ambivalent relationship with tradition it evinces, are recurrent themes in Takuro Kuwata’s work. His use of colour is eye-poppingly lush, but rarely natural, sharing something of the industrial richness of Ron Nagle, whose practice draws more on hot rod paints than natural pigments. A row of Kuwata’s ceramics can give the queasy impression of a bunch of radioactive fruits. […]