Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title: | Carlos Runcie Tanaka : litoral
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Other uniform titles: | Runcie-Tanaka, Carlos. Works. Selections.
Villacorta, Jorge,
Pau-Llosa, Ricardo,
Skipsey, Marina,
Litoral.
Litoral. English.
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Other authors / contributors: | Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Lima, Peru), issuing body, host institution.
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ISBN: | 9786124738319 6124738317
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Notes: | On occasion of the exhibition "Litoral" held at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Lima, Peru, May 25 - July 30, 2017. Includes bibliographical references (pages [184]-185). Parallel texts in Spanish and English.
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Summary: | "LITORAL (COASTLINE) comprises a selection of sculptures made since 1988 by Carlos Runcie Tanaka (Lima, 1958). Since 1978, Runcie Tanaka has run a pottery studio in Lima, where, aside from his artwork, creates functional pieces made from stoneware clays and local materials that are fired in gas kilns reaching temperatures of 1,300C (2,375F). "The works of Carlos Runcie Tanaka are ceramic sculptures that often refer to a fossil world and speak of antediluvian times: allusions to a natural environment before the presence of human beings on the face of the Earth, made from clay and burned by fire at more than 1,200° C, to enable the imagination to encompass a dimension of time beyond the anthropocentric horizon, when the sea and the planet were otherʺ--Artist's web page.
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