| | Stockno.: | K20-034 | Artist: | Takashi Ōmori 大森孝志 (b.1952) | Description: | Large black streamlined vase. A special casting technique is used called wax model casting (rōgata chūzō 蝋型鋳造). This technique was used in the past to make bronze ware and gilt copper Buddha statues, and is now used to make very precise cast-metal objects. The surface of the core is first made by mixing beeswax and turpentine. This becomes the prototype, after which clay is added and then the whole is dried. After applying heat, the wax dissolves and a cavity forms, this becomes the mold. Melted metal is poured into the mold, to create a cast-metal object.
With original box reading ‘wax model casting, flower basket, oval water basin’ (rōgata chūzō kaki mizu no da 蝋型鋳造 花器 水の楕. Signed Takashi, with artist seal reading Takashi. | Signed: | on the bottom, Takashi. | Size: | 32.5 cm (h) x 25 (w) x 10.5 (d) | Condition: | in fine condition, with original box. | Price: | Euro 1650 SOLD | Reference: | Takashi Ōmori is a metalworker from Takaoka. After graduating high school, in 1971 he studying under living national treasure Suga Shōen (須賀松園) and focused on wax model casting. From 1978 he started working independently. In 1973 he first entered the Nitten (national state sponsored Japan Fine Arts exhibition), he would exhibit at the prestigious Nitten five times. At the Japan Industrial crafts exhibition he also exhibited that same year, and would exhibit there two more times. That year also marked the start of his continous participation in the Toyama prefecture exhibition, where he won a prize twice. Since 1980 he has also exhibited numerous times at the Nihon Shin-kōgei (Japan new crafts exhibition). | | | |
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