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Pineapple Box-S
Mishima Kimiyo (Japanese, 1932 – 2024)
Japanese
Shôwa era
1986
Medium/Technique
Stoneware
Dimensions
Height x length x width: 25.4 x 27.9 x 20.3 cm (10 x 11 x 8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Halsey and Alice North in honor of Anne Nishimura Morse
Accession Number2018.365
CollectionsAsia, Contemporary Art
ClassificationsCeramics
Just like the nearby works by Robert Rauschenberg and Beth Lo, Mishima Kimiyo honors materials typically discarded as a waste. Here, she created an extraordinarily realistic and detailed ceramic sculpture of a cardboard box used to transport pineapples across international borders by the global company Del Monte. Her work often critiques the impact of overconsumption and throw-away culture on our environment. The immediately recognizable form and branding is uncanny and deceptive, asking us to reconsider an object we might immediately trash.
Catalogue Raisonné
39
Provenance2004, sold by the artist to Halsey and Alice North, New York; 2018, gift of Halsey and Alice North to the MFA. (Accession date: June 19, 2018)
Copyright© Mishima Kimiyo