PINTA LIMA
Esferas / Spheres
Special Project: Carlos Runcie Tanaka
Installation, 2026
PINTA Lima 2026, Casa Prado, Lima, Perú.
“Repeating and mastering the form, making spheres of clay, is like raising a prayer with no beginning or end in time. When I look, I hear distant music.”
(Carlos Runcie Tanaka, A Zen Parable and Ten Short Stories, 2007)
Spheres, known as Special Project: Carlos Runcie Tanaka, is an installation developed by CRT Legacy, in collaboration with Pinta Lima and Henrique Faría Gallery, bringing together twelve ceramic spheres from different moments in Carlos Runcie Tanaka’s practice. The works were made between 2001 and 2007 and presented in the exhibitions The Same Prayer (Galería Wu Ediciones, 2001), Fourteen / No More (Galería Enlace Arte Contemporáneo, 2006), and A Zen Parable and Ten Small Stories (Galería Ryoichi Jinnai, 2007). Gathered as a constellation, the spheres reveal recurring themes within the artist’s practice, including earth, transformation, interconnectedness, and the relationship between matter and cosmos.
Planetas
Special Project: Carlos Runcie Tanaka
Installation, 2026
PINTA Lima 2026, Casa Prado, Lima, Perú.
https://www.pinta.art/Lima/Sections/Special-Project-Carlos-Runcie-Tanaka
Planetas is a composite installation bringing together twelve ceramic spheres from different moments in Carlos Runcie Tanaka’s practice.
“Repeating and mastering the form, making spheres of clay, is like raising a prayer with no beginning or end in time. When I look, I hear distant music.”
(Carlos Runcie Tanaka, A Zen Parable and Ten Short Stories, 2007)
“This project brings together a series of works that attest to the persistence of craft and the artist’s ongoing pursuit of mastering the form of the clay sphere. This group of works was produced between 2001 and 2007 and presented in the exhibitions The Same Prayer (Galería Wu Ediciones, 2001), Fourteen / No More, Installation (Galería Enlace Arte Contemporáneo, 2006), and A Zen Parable and Ten Small Stories (Galería Ryoichi Jinnai, 2007).” (Pinta Lima 2026).