On the occasion of Megumi Yuasa's first solo show at Gomide&Co, presented from August 22nd to October 26th, 2024, the gallery hosted the artist and the organizers of the exhibition for a talk on September 28th. The topics covered in the conversation included the artist's perception of his own work, the process of creating the exhibition and selecting the works, and the place of ceramics in the current contemporary art scene.
Throughout his artistic production, Megumi Yuasa (São Paulo, 1938) has built up a language of his own, shaping sculptures that combine a variety of elements, such as clay, metals, filing, and oxides. A master in his field, the artist emphasizes the ceramists’ communion with the earth, arguing that everything around a work is part of it and will accompany it to infinity. Since the beginning of his career in the mid-1960s, he has always been present at exhibitions of Japanese-Brazilian artists, and at exhibitions focusing on the language of ceramics. With the project conceived by the partnership between the artist Alexandre da Cunha, the architecture studio entre terras (Jaqueline Lessa), and the researcher Rachel Hoshino, who also signed the critical essay, the exhibition at Gomide&Co brought together works made from the late 1970s with some new works dating from 2024.
