Ceramic show

Throughout centuries, artisans have perfected their craft and influenced aesthetics by molding a mixture of water and clay into various shapes, then firing them into fine ceramics. The earthy apparatus, glazed with creamy coating, lights up people's houses and lives and reflects their takes on beauty and the relations among people, materials and the soil. From Clay to Apparatus, an exhibition now on at the Bund Finance Center in Shanghai, brings together ceramics by dozens of artists from China and Japan. The show investigates the traditions of ceramic-making. Meanwhile, it shows how artists in the two countries, both with a long history of creating elegant ceramics, ushered tradition into a modern context to renew the techniques and to create new aesthetics taste. The exhibition, running through to Feb 28, at the Kyoto House, initiates "a dialogue "between Chinese and Japanese artists and explores ways to realize the show's aim of "delivering emotions through objects".

Bund Finance Center, 600 Zhongshan Dong Er Road, Huangpu district, Shanghai.021-6366-9999.