【展覧会のご案内/ Notice of Exhibition】
現代美術 艸居は、5月14日(土)より6月11日(土)まで艸居メインギャラリーにて鯨虎(いさなこ)じょう個展「Amulet」を開催致します。
土や釉薬などの素材と真摯に向き合い、実験的なコミュニケーションを重ねて生み出される鯨虎の作品は、国内外の様々な展覧会に出展され、近年活躍の幅を広げています。艸居において初の個展となる本展覧会では新作の陶作品34点を展示致します。
今回の作品のモチーフとなっているのは「お守り」です。新型コロナウイルスの世界的な流行に伴って始まったこの新しい日常の中で、人々は何を心の支えとしているのか。それは「癒し」であり、人によって異なる形をしていると鯨虎は考えます。粘土と釉薬を熱と重力に委ねて生まれる形や優しい色合いは、作品タイトルとなっている「リラックスしたかたち」にもつながり、作家が制作前にイメージしたという「ぐでん」「ぺちょん」といった言葉にも通じます。素材を実験し、個性を発見してそれを引き出すことで作り出される鯨虎の作品を通じ、皆様がそれぞれに心に抱く「お守り」について思いを馳せていただければ幸いです。
Sokyo Gallery is pleased to present Joe Isanako's solo show Amulet at our main gallery, from Saturday, May 14 to Saturday, June 11, 2022.
Isanako's works are created through experimental and sincere communication with materials such as clay and glaze. Her works have been exhibited in various domestic and international exhibitions, and her activities have been expanding in recent years. This exhibition, her first solo show at Sokyo, will feature a total of 34 new ceramic works.
The motif of her works is “amulet.” In this new daily existence that emerged after the global outbreak of COVID-19, what do people turn to for emotional support? Isanako believes that it is "healing," and that it takes different forms for different people. The shapes and gentle colors created by allowing the clay and glaze to heat and be pulled by gravity are connected to the "Relaxed form," which is the title of the work. They also remind us of the Japanese onomatopoeia, "guden" and "pechon," which evoke the relaxed appearance that she imagined before creating the pieces. We hope that through the works of Isanako, which are created by experimenting, discovering and bringing out the individuality of each material, you will ponder about the "amulets" that each of you hold in your heart.
















