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Satoru Hoshino was born in 1945 in the Niigata Prefecture, Japan and graduated from Ritsumeikan University in 1971. He experienced a turning point in his artistic practice in 1986, when a landslide destroyed his studio. While he had been working in clay for nearly 15 years before the devastation, this event changed his approach towards the medium. Arata Tani described Hoshino’s position regarding clay for Ceramics: Art and Perception when he wrote, “it is essential to understand that he does not treat clay simply as a material. His encounter with clay as a physical substance is more primal and fundamental.”
The artist considers his interaction with clay to be collaborative, instead of an imposition of his own will on the earthy material. Hoshino writes eloquently on his process for Ceramics: Art and Perception, explaining that;
“I engage in a dialogue with the clay as it sits in from of me, as a soft, flexible lump of matter. This dialogue is carried out through a form of body language: the primitive action of pressing parts of my body (my fingers) against the body of the clay… This is not a relationship in which I am active and the clay is passive, even if I am the first to speak…The dialogue can only take place if I empathise with the material, adjusting myself to the time contained in the clay and the rhythms of nature.”
Hoshino’s oeuvre includes large-scale installations that can fill entire rooms as well as more intimate objects that can be held in one’s hands. The hand is a visible and prominent element in his works, and when he uses glazes, he allows them to pool and drip rhythmically on the interior and exterior of the works. It is precisely this purposeful engagement of the hand and the material that makes the sculpture appealing, as the artist allows the process of forming and glazing to be his subject
Satoru Hoshino has been awarded several prizes in his native country, and has lectured and demonstrated in workshops throughout the world. His work is represented in the collections of numerous museums, including The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, the Musée Ariana, Geneva, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota.
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Awards
1979 Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition, Minister Prize
1979 2nd Japan Enba Art Competition, Superior Prize
1980 4th Kyoto Sculpture Selection Exhibition, Kyoto Prefecture Procurement Prize
1984 1st World Triennial Exhibition of Small Size Ceramics, Honor Prize
1998 Suntory Prize '98, Challenges on Forms
Education
1971 Graduated from Ritsumeikan University
Museum Collections
Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Japan
Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand
Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
Bertoran Museum, Chateauroux, France
Crafts Gallery, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Faenza National Pottery Museum, Italy
Kyoto City Museum, Kyoto, Japan
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Musee Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland
Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Newcastle Art Gallery, Australia
Power House Museum, Sydney, Australia
Province Museum Modern Kunst, Oostende, Belgium
Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred University, Alfred, New York
Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan
State Decorative Arts Institute, Switzerland
Takamatsu City Museum, Takamatsu, Japan
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
Yamaguchi Prefecture Museum of Art, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 Spiral with Spring Snow, Fu-Guei Gallery, Yingge, Taiwan
2008 Spring Snow, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2007 Beginning Form - Spiral 07, Gatov Gallery, CSU Long Beach, California
2006 Beginning Form - Spiral, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York
Beginning Form - Spiral, Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art,
Alfred, New York
2005 Beginning Form - Met Spiral, Gallery Den, Osaka, Japan
2004 Black Horse in the Dark, Gallery De Witte, Voet, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2003 An afterimage of an old layer, A memory of a geology, Westbeth Gallery,
Kozuka, Nagoya, Japan
2002 Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
Appeared Figure, Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Ootsu, Japan
Birth of Bubbles, Gallery De Witte, Voet, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2001 Rain in Ancient Woodland, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
2000-2001 Ancient Wood-Land, Province Museum Moderne, Kunst, Belgium
1999-2000 Reincarnate/Pre-Copernican Mud, Musee Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland
1974-1999 Gallery Iteza, Kyoto, Japan
Ban Art Gallery
Westbeth Gallery
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