OIL by Bijutsu Techo Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition "Shibuya Parco Pottery Sales Floor" from December 12th to 27th. This group exhibition brings together young ceramic artists and contemporary artists, brought together by Kyoto-based ceramicists DAISAK, Kanai Yu, and Hirata Manyo. The participating artists are Ayukawa Naoko, Kanai Yu, Takahashi Rintaro, Tanaka Taro, Taniguchi Shinya, Nakamura Joji, Nemoto Yuto, Noda Jasmine, Hirata Manyo, Horie Maya, BIEN, DAISAK, and DIEGO. As the exhibition title, chosen by the artists themselves, suggests, the OIL by Bijutsu Techo Gallery will be reminiscent of a department store's ceramics section or a recycle shop's ceramics corner.
This exhibition will feature a diverse range of unique and exciting works, from everyday items like plates and cups to large-scale pieces. All works will be available for purchase, and some will be on display and for sale, both at the venue and on the OIL by Bijutsu Techo online store.
*The exhibition will open at 5:00 PM on Saturday, December 12th, the first day of the exhibition. Please note.
□Exhibition Statement
Ceramics, although generally defined, encompasses a wide variety of works. Department stores offer elaborate craftsmanship, while general stores offer everyday items and folk art that showcases the techniques and characteristics of each region. Ceramic sculptures are displayed in art galleries, and even the plain white plates sold at 100-yen shops are ceramic. Ceramics are abundant and diverse in the market.
This exhibition features ceramic works by 13 artists. Maya Horie, who uses the classic blue-and-white technique to depict the act of pottery itself with contemporary motifs; DAISAK, who discovers a unique pop style using silkscreen printing, originally intended for mass production; Yu Kanai, who attempts to deconstruct the utilitarian nature of vessels; and Manyo Hirata, who evokes images of grand spaces with objectified parts. BIEN and DIEGO, who usually work as painters, are also creating ceramic works in this exhibition. Each ceramic work by these 13 artists is imbued with the artist's own unique originality.
I once had the experience of shaping pottery using a potter's wheel and hand-twisting. While I struggled technically as I kneaded the clay and groped for shape, I also found myself asking myself questions like, "What am I making?" and "What makes something good?" When I realized that potters create while answering these questions, it changed the way I looked at pottery. They take shape by kneading their techniques, knowledge, design, and ideas into the clay, and even control the fire and wind to fire it. While each piece involves many steps, each piece is created relying on the artist's own sensibilities and experience, and is undeniably original.
The system fixtures used in convenience stores and supermarkets are shelves that symbolize visual marketing, specializing in ease of viewing and display. They stock everything you need, democratizing the value of those items. By deliberately displaying the works in an orderly manner on this system of fixtures, this exhibition raises awareness that each individual work is original and pure, even within a diverse pottery market, and liberates each artist's style in a radical direction. It also questions what true diversity means. (VOU/Bo Kawara Kenta) *In conjunction with the holding of this exhibition, a statement has been released by Kawara Kenta, representative of the Kyoto gallery shop "Bo/VOU," which has connections with the organizers DAISAK, Kanai Yu, and Hirata Manyo, and which handles many works by the participating artists. Kawara is well acquainted with young artists working with ceramics in a variety of scenes.
□Participating Artists
Naoko Ayukawa
Naoko Ayukawa
Born in 1995. Graduated from Kyoto City Graduate School of Arts, majoring in sculpture. Her motifs are moments, situations and existences that she found interesting, intriguing or moving from her own experiences, and she transforms these memories into form as her creative expression.
Kanai Yu
Kanai Yu
Born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1984. Completed a Master's degree in Ceramics at Kyoto Seika University in 2009. From 2008 to 2013, he was active as a member of "contact Gonzo". Focusing on performances and installations that involve intense physical contact, he has exhibited his work at museums and theaters both in Japan and abroad, including the Mori Art Museum (Tokyo) and MoMA (New York). He began his own activities in 2014. He is currently based in Kyoto and creates works based on the theme of "excavated toys".
Takahashi Rintaro
Takahashi Rintaro
Born in Tokyo in 1991. Currently enrolled in a doctoral program at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. Using performances in which he uses his own body to influence the environment, as well as media such as sculpture, video, and installation, he explores "changing consciousness" by pushing energy to the limits of matter and the body. His major solo exhibitions include "Scale Here" (BLOCK HOUSE, Tokyo) in 2019, and group exhibitions he has participated in include "Great Kyoto Art Festival in Kyotango 2020" (Kyoto) and "Gifu Art Festival, Land of Clear Rivers" (Gifu Prefectural Museum of Art).
Taro Tanaka
Taro Tanaka
Born in Tokyo in 1990. Completed the Master's course at the Kyoto Seika University Graduate School of Art and Design in 2015. Formed the material research band "monolith&soilmans note" in 2017. Currently based in Tajimi City, Gifu Prefecture.
Shinya Taniguchi
Shinya Taniguchi
Born in Kyoto in 1978. Completed a graduate degree in ceramics from Kyoto City University of Arts in 2003. Active as a "pottery maker," he creates everyday tableware, tea utensils, and three-dimensional sculptures themed around water.
Nakamura Joji
Nakamura Joji
Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1981. Graduated from the Department of Plastic Arts, Faculty of Art, Kyoto Seika University, majoring in Ceramics, in 2003, and studied under Kawashima Kozo and Yoshinobu. Founded G-studio in 2012. Awards he has received include the Kyoto Prefectural Governor's Award at the 24th Crafts and Arts Soko Association Exhibition (Kyoto Museum of Art) in 2012, the Kyoten Award at the Kyoten Exhibition (Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art) in 2013, and the Encouragement Award at the 3rd Japan Ceramic Association Encouragement Award Kansai Exhibition (Kyocera Museum of Art, Kyoto) in 2018. His collections include those of the World Tile Museum, the City's Kurasakazuki Museum, Honen-in Temple, and the International Ceramic Museum of Faenza.
Yuto Nemoto
Yuto Nemoto
Born in 1992. In 2020, he studied abroad at the Athens National University of Fine Arts as an exchange student. He is currently enrolled in a doctoral program at the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School. His major solo exhibitions include "PERFECT OFFICE" (Aoyama studio164, Tokyo) in 2020.
Jasmine Noda
Jasmine Noda
Born in Thailand in 1996. She creates vessels and installations that use them. With the aim of clarifying the multifaceted form of contemporary crafts, she comments on the relationship between "crafts and art" through her vessels. In her ghost series, she uses "cracks" as a phenomenal decorative technique to separate the purpose from the vessel's form, expressing the ambivalence between opposing elements such as purpose and its surface. Her major solo exhibitions include "Sinking on the Lake Surface" (KITAHAMA gallery, Osaka), and group exhibitions she has participated in include "ART OSAKA 2019" (Osaka) in 2019 and "ARTIST'S FAIR KYOTO 2020" (Kyoto) in 2020.
Maha Hirata
Maha Hirata
In 2017, she completed the Master's program in Ceramics at the Kyoto City University of Arts Graduate School (received the Mayor's Award for Graduate School). Using earth, stone, and sand, she creates installations, sculptures, drawings, and more through field research both in Japan and abroad. Major group exhibitions include "fabric, light and dirty" (ARTZONE, Kyoto) in 2016, "Rokko Meet Art 2017" (Alpine Botanical Garden, Hyogo) in 2017, "Jatiwangi Contemporary Ceramics Biennale & Residence Program 2019" (Jatiwangi, Indonesia) in 2019, "Jingdezhen Taoxichuan Art Fair 2019" (Jingdezhen, China) in 2019, and "OBJECT/SUBJECT" (ANTEROOM KYOTO, Kyoto) in 2020.
Maya Horie
Maya Horie
Born in Shimane Prefecture in 1985. Studied pottery in the Kansai region. Her creative process began when she was inspired by the erotic nature of the act of kneading the clay, the rotation of the potter's wheel, the glazes, and the structure of the kiln.
BIEN
BIEN
Born in Tokyo in 1993. An artist who expresses himself through drawings. Influenced by street culture, animation and figures, he creates abstract paintings and installations that inherit the various expressive styles of these cultures. He attempts to deconstruct and reconstruct symbolic meanings. His major solo exhibitions include "WOOZY WIZARD" (BLOCKHOUSE, Tokyo) in 2018, and his major group exhibitions include "Reborn-Art Festival" (Miyagi) in 2017, "Rebel Without a Cause" (Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo) in 2018, and "PARALLEL ARCHEOLOGY" (OIL by Bijutsu Techo Gallery, Tokyo) in 2020.
DAISAK
DAISAK
Born in Kyoto Prefecture in 1986. Graduated from Kyoto Seika University Graduate School with a major in ceramics. He takes inspiration from objects that catch his eye, mainly ornaments, regardless of era, nationality or material, and then uses the information the objects give off to imagine the surrounding scenery, the type of owner they might be, and how they might make a cool entrance, then creates his works using ceramic techniques that re-edit these images.
DIEGO
DIEGO
He creates abstract paintings of humorous anthropomorphized characters made from everyday objects that we see casually in our cities, such as plastic bottles and scraps of paper found on the street, rats we spot on the road, and cars passing by.
□About sales of works
Works exhibited in this exhibition will be on sale from 17:00 on Saturday, December 12th at the OIL by Bijutsu Techo store on the 2nd floor of Shibuya Parco, and from 16:00 on Monday, December 14th on the e-commerce site OIL by Bijutsu Techo (oil.bijutsutecho.com).
□Exhibition Overview
"Shibuya Parco Ceramics Sales Floor"
Venue: OIL by Bijutsu Techo
Period: Saturday, December 12th to Sunday, December 27th, 2020. Open every day during the exhibition period
Opening hours: 11:00-21:00 *17:00-21:00 on December 12th
Address: Shibuya Parco 2F, 15-1 Udagawa-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0042
Phone number: 03-6868-3064
Admission fee: Free
Access: 5-minute walk from Shibuya Station Hachiko Exit
URL: http://oil-gallery.bijutsutecho.com
Twitter: @OILbyBT
Instagram: @OILbyBT
*Opening hours and venue status are in accordance with Shibuya Parco's business hours. Please check the official Shibuya Parco website.
About OIL by Bijutsu Techo
Bijutsu Techo, which has been reporting on trends in the art scene, is creating an art marketplace together with Japan's leading galleries and art stores. As a media outlet, Bijutsu Techo has played a role in connecting art and society, and through this service, it delivers the experience of "purchasing artworks." In the fall of 2019, a physical store opened on the second floor of the new Shibuya Parco. It offers three functions: Gallery, Cafe, and Shelf, creating a space where people can encounter artworks.
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This exhibition will feature a diverse range of unique and exciting works, from everyday items like plates and cups to large-scale pieces. All works will be available for purchase, and some will be on display and for sale, both at the venue and on the OIL by Bijutsu Techo online store.
*The exhibition will open at 5:00 PM on Saturday, December 12th, the first day of the exhibition. Please note.
□Exhibition Statement
Ceramics, although generally defined, encompasses a wide variety of works. Department stores offer elaborate craftsmanship, while general stores offer everyday items and folk art that showcases the techniques and characteristics of each region. Ceramic sculptures are displayed in art galleries, and even the plain white plates sold at 100-yen shops are ceramic. Ceramics are abundant and diverse in the market.
This exhibition features ceramic works by 13 artists. Maya Horie, who uses the classic blue-and-white technique to depict the act of pottery itself with contemporary motifs; DAISAK, who discovers a unique pop style using silkscreen printing, originally intended for mass production; Yu Kanai, who attempts to deconstruct the utilitarian nature of vessels; and Manyo Hirata, who evokes images of grand spaces with objectified parts. BIEN and DIEGO, who usually work as painters, are also creating ceramic works in this exhibition. Each ceramic work by these 13 artists is imbued with the artist's own unique originality.
I once had the experience of shaping pottery using a potter's wheel and hand-twisting. While I struggled technically as I kneaded the clay and groped for shape, I also found myself asking myself questions like, "What am I making?" and "What makes something good?" When I realized that potters create while answering these questions, it changed the way I looked at pottery. They take shape by kneading their techniques, knowledge, design, and ideas into the clay, and even control the fire and wind to fire it. While each piece involves many steps, each piece is created relying on the artist's own sensibilities and experience, and is undeniably original.
The system fixtures used in convenience stores and supermarkets are shelves that symbolize visual marketing, specializing in ease of viewing and display. They stock everything you need, democratizing the value of those items. By deliberately displaying the works in an orderly manner on this system of fixtures, this exhibition raises awareness that each individual work is original and pure, even within a diverse pottery market, and liberates each artist's style in a radical direction. It also questions what true diversity means. (VOU/Bo Kawara Kenta) *In conjunction with the holding of this exhibition, a statement has been released by Kawara Kenta, representative of the Kyoto gallery shop "Bo/VOU," which has connections with the organizers DAISAK, Kanai Yu, and Hirata Manyo, and which handles many works by the participating artists. Kawara is well acquainted with young artists working with ceramics in a variety of scenes.
□Participating Artists
Naoko AyukawaNaoko Ayukawa
Born in 1995. Graduated from Kyoto City Graduate School of Arts, majoring in sculpture. Her motifs are moments, situations and existences that she found interesting, intriguing or moving from her own experiences, and she transforms these memories into form as her creative expression.
Kanai YuKanai Yu
Born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1984. Completed a Master's degree in Ceramics at Kyoto Seika University in 2009. From 2008 to 2013, he was active as a member of "contact Gonzo". Focusing on performances and installations that involve intense physical contact, he has exhibited his work at museums and theaters both in Japan and abroad, including the Mori Art Museum (Tokyo) and MoMA (New York). He began his own activities in 2014. He is currently based in Kyoto and creates works based on the theme of "excavated toys".
Takahashi RintaroTakahashi Rintaro
Born in Tokyo in 1991. Currently enrolled in a doctoral program at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. Using performances in which he uses his own body to influence the environment, as well as media such as sculpture, video, and installation, he explores "changing consciousness" by pushing energy to the limits of matter and the body. His major solo exhibitions include "Scale Here" (BLOCK HOUSE, Tokyo) in 2019, and group exhibitions he has participated in include "Great Kyoto Art Festival in Kyotango 2020" (Kyoto) and "Gifu Art Festival, Land of Clear Rivers" (Gifu Prefectural Museum of Art).
Taro TanakaTaro Tanaka
Born in Tokyo in 1990. Completed the Master's course at the Kyoto Seika University Graduate School of Art and Design in 2015. Formed the material research band "monolith&soilmans note" in 2017. Currently based in Tajimi City, Gifu Prefecture.
Shinya TaniguchiShinya Taniguchi
Born in Kyoto in 1978. Completed a graduate degree in ceramics from Kyoto City University of Arts in 2003. Active as a "pottery maker," he creates everyday tableware, tea utensils, and three-dimensional sculptures themed around water.
Nakamura JojiNakamura Joji
Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1981. Graduated from the Department of Plastic Arts, Faculty of Art, Kyoto Seika University, majoring in Ceramics, in 2003, and studied under Kawashima Kozo and Yoshinobu. Founded G-studio in 2012. Awards he has received include the Kyoto Prefectural Governor's Award at the 24th Crafts and Arts Soko Association Exhibition (Kyoto Museum of Art) in 2012, the Kyoten Award at the Kyoten Exhibition (Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art) in 2013, and the Encouragement Award at the 3rd Japan Ceramic Association Encouragement Award Kansai Exhibition (Kyocera Museum of Art, Kyoto) in 2018. His collections include those of the World Tile Museum, the City's Kurasakazuki Museum, Honen-in Temple, and the International Ceramic Museum of Faenza.
Yuto NemotoYuto Nemoto
Born in 1992. In 2020, he studied abroad at the Athens National University of Fine Arts as an exchange student. He is currently enrolled in a doctoral program at the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School. His major solo exhibitions include "PERFECT OFFICE" (Aoyama studio164, Tokyo) in 2020.
Jasmine NodaJasmine Noda
Born in Thailand in 1996. She creates vessels and installations that use them. With the aim of clarifying the multifaceted form of contemporary crafts, she comments on the relationship between "crafts and art" through her vessels. In her ghost series, she uses "cracks" as a phenomenal decorative technique to separate the purpose from the vessel's form, expressing the ambivalence between opposing elements such as purpose and its surface. Her major solo exhibitions include "Sinking on the Lake Surface" (KITAHAMA gallery, Osaka), and group exhibitions she has participated in include "ART OSAKA 2019" (Osaka) in 2019 and "ARTIST'S FAIR KYOTO 2020" (Kyoto) in 2020.
Maha HirataMaha Hirata
In 2017, she completed the Master's program in Ceramics at the Kyoto City University of Arts Graduate School (received the Mayor's Award for Graduate School). Using earth, stone, and sand, she creates installations, sculptures, drawings, and more through field research both in Japan and abroad. Major group exhibitions include "fabric, light and dirty" (ARTZONE, Kyoto) in 2016, "Rokko Meet Art 2017" (Alpine Botanical Garden, Hyogo) in 2017, "Jatiwangi Contemporary Ceramics Biennale & Residence Program 2019" (Jatiwangi, Indonesia) in 2019, "Jingdezhen Taoxichuan Art Fair 2019" (Jingdezhen, China) in 2019, and "OBJECT/SUBJECT" (ANTEROOM KYOTO, Kyoto) in 2020.
Maya HorieMaya Horie
Born in Shimane Prefecture in 1985. Studied pottery in the Kansai region. Her creative process began when she was inspired by the erotic nature of the act of kneading the clay, the rotation of the potter's wheel, the glazes, and the structure of the kiln.
BIENBIEN
Born in Tokyo in 1993. An artist who expresses himself through drawings. Influenced by street culture, animation and figures, he creates abstract paintings and installations that inherit the various expressive styles of these cultures. He attempts to deconstruct and reconstruct symbolic meanings. His major solo exhibitions include "WOOZY WIZARD" (BLOCKHOUSE, Tokyo) in 2018, and his major group exhibitions include "Reborn-Art Festival" (Miyagi) in 2017, "Rebel Without a Cause" (Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo) in 2018, and "PARALLEL ARCHEOLOGY" (OIL by Bijutsu Techo Gallery, Tokyo) in 2020.
DAISAKDAISAK
Born in Kyoto Prefecture in 1986. Graduated from Kyoto Seika University Graduate School with a major in ceramics. He takes inspiration from objects that catch his eye, mainly ornaments, regardless of era, nationality or material, and then uses the information the objects give off to imagine the surrounding scenery, the type of owner they might be, and how they might make a cool entrance, then creates his works using ceramic techniques that re-edit these images.
DIEGODIEGO
He creates abstract paintings of humorous anthropomorphized characters made from everyday objects that we see casually in our cities, such as plastic bottles and scraps of paper found on the street, rats we spot on the road, and cars passing by.
□About sales of works
Works exhibited in this exhibition will be on sale from 17:00 on Saturday, December 12th at the OIL by Bijutsu Techo store on the 2nd floor of Shibuya Parco, and from 16:00 on Monday, December 14th on the e-commerce site OIL by Bijutsu Techo (oil.bijutsutecho.com).
□Exhibition Overview
"Shibuya Parco Ceramics Sales Floor"
Venue: OIL by Bijutsu Techo
Period: Saturday, December 12th to Sunday, December 27th, 2020. Open every day during the exhibition period
Opening hours: 11:00-21:00 *17:00-21:00 on December 12th
Address: Shibuya Parco 2F, 15-1 Udagawa-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0042
Phone number: 03-6868-3064
Admission fee: Free
Access: 5-minute walk from Shibuya Station Hachiko Exit
URL: http://oil-gallery.bijutsutecho.com
Twitter: @OILbyBT
Instagram: @OILbyBT
*Opening hours and venue status are in accordance with Shibuya Parco's business hours. Please check the official Shibuya Parco website.
About OIL by Bijutsu Techo
Bijutsu Techo, which has been reporting on trends in the art scene, is creating an art marketplace together with Japan's leading galleries and art stores. As a media outlet, Bijutsu Techo has played a role in connecting art and society, and through this service, it delivers the experience of "purchasing artworks." In the fall of 2019, a physical store opened on the second floor of the new Shibuya Parco. It offers three functions: Gallery, Cafe, and Shelf, creating a space where people can encounter artworks.
oil.bijutsutecho.com
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