Artist: SATORU HOSHINO
Title: Appeared Figure III
Year created: 1989
Medium: Smoked earthenware
Height (inches): 5
Width (inches): 24
Depth (inches): 30
This piece is unframed.
Description of piece:
5 x 30 1/4 x 24 1/4 inch smoked earthenware ceramic. Appeared Figure III was previously exhibited at: Shiga, Museum of Modern Art, Saturo Hoshino: Retrospective, Appeared Figure, 2002, no. 21, p. 42 (illustrated in color with incorrect dimensions). New York, Dominique Lévy Gallery, Body and Matter: The Art of Kazuo Shiraga and Satoru Hoshino, January - April 2015, back cover, pp. 102 - 103 (illustrated in color).
Artist bio:
Satoru Hoshino was born in 1945 in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, and graduated from Ritsumeikan University in 1971. Hoshino began working in clay in the early 1970s and was an active member of the Sodeisha group between 1974 and 1980. After a landslide destroyed his studio in 1986, the artist recognized the physicality and force of his material, and was inspired to work in a less controlled manner with his material. In his later work, Hoshino self-consciously relinquishes his agency to the clay he works with, and considers his interaction with clay to be collaborative: both artist and material act upon each other to create ceramics in which the physical trace of this relationship is foregrounded. Hoshino often smokes his ceramics to produce a deep and velvety black finish or glazes them and allows the glaze to pool and drip around his indexical finger marks. Hoshino has been awarded several prizes in Japan, 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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