Masaomi Yasunaga in LOEWE's Salone del Mobile 2025 Presentation, Milan, Italy

14 April 2025

Masaomi Yasunaga's ceramic work is featured in LOEWE's Salone del Mobile 2025 Presentation. Since 2015, LOEWE has taken part in Salone del Mobile, the largest international fair dedicated to design and furniture, with a special project focusing on an object.

Presenting bowls in 2015, tapestries in 2018, baskets in 2019, chairs in 2023 and lamps in 2024, each year LOEWE highlights a new piece, inviting artists to explore various techniques, colors, shapes and finishes in the frame of a daily object. Considered as a group exhibition, this communal project aims to gather artists from all around the world, with various practices, styles, backgrounds and techniques, to study one unique object.

For 2025, LOEWE invited artists to create a ceramic teapot, a piece represented in most of the cultures through the centuries and which used a large variety of materials and forms. Considered as a group exhibition, this communal project aims to gather artists from all around the world, with various practices, styles, backgrounds and techniques, to study one unique object.

Inspired by his upbringing within Japan’s Catholic minority and ensuing appreciation for aesthetics of Western origin, Yasunaga honours a global range of vessel forms and ritual objects. With titles referencing physical states of being — empty, melting, fused, molted, shedding, skeleton, flesh and bone — the artist evokes nature’s physicality into earthenware, eliciting an emotional connection with the viewer.

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Image: © Masaomi Yasunaga; Courtesy LOEWE. Photography by Timothee Lambrecq.