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Jun Kaneko

Jun Kaneko (Born 1942) is active/lives in Nebraska / Japan.  Jun Kaneko is known for Ceramic ovoid monolith-dangos.

Copyright 2008 Janet Gwendolyn Smith, www.jgsart.com

The following is from the New York Times, 1/14/2007 in the Art & Design section:

"Giants of the Heartland" by Michael Kimmelman.  Posted from Pittsburgh, Kansas

FOR the past couple of years Jun Kaneko, the ceramic artist, has been driving every month from his studio in Omaha, five hours south to a sewer-pipe factory here, called Mission Clay.  There, in a pair of beehive kilns from the turn of the last century, he has been making what must be some of the largest ceramic sculptures made, maybe the largest ever made.

They're Easter Island-like heads, the size of baby rhinos. Or they're abstract, in hollow shapes like lozenges or lima beans or dumplings — he calls them "Dangos," which is Japanese for dumplings. Or, in one case, a little like a ship's billowing sail, each one weighing thousands of pounds and rising up to 13 feet.

The kilns evoke Celtic ruins, like the ones Irish monks lived in 1,000 years ago: circu   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 26950 characters.]  Artist bio

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