TOYOUMI Kenta Solo Exhibition- Phantom Banquet – Passing on the Core Bone of Urushi-
Period :
November 29th(Sat) through December 18th(Fri)
Artist present in gallery:
November 28th & 29th
December 5th,6th,12th,13th &18th
Profile
1988 Born in Osaka
2018 MFA from Kanazawa College of Arts, Graduate School of Arts and Crafts,
Ph.D. in the field of lacquerware
2018 - 2020 Full-time Lecturer at Koubun Gakuen Girls’ High School, Art Course
2020 - Specialist at Kanazawa Utatsuyama Kogei Kobo
2015 Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program Scholarship
2016 Japanese Arts and Culture Scholarship
2017 Sato International Cultural Scholarship Foundation 27th Annual Scholarship
2017 Tobe Maki Foundation Scholarship
Urushi, as I believe, has "inheritance" immanent in itself. I would like to make this exhibition an opportunity to reconsider the "inheritance" within Urushi, apart from simply succeeding the traditional culture and techniques.
The history of Urushi dates back to Jomon period and continues still nowadays.
Having been passed down and transmitted over generations, shouldn’t this latent feature of the Urushi be called “hereditary”?
At considering its “hereditary”feature, let me refer to the term “generativity”,
which the psychologist Erikson introduced in his theory of psychological development of human beings.
“Generativity” is a word coined by Erikson. He divides human development into eight stages, and this generativity is the seventh stage. It is the stage where a person enters adulthood and produces various things, including childbirth and hence very often been expressed as”reproduction” stage.
Today, the concept of "generativity" does not refer only to reproduction, but is widely used as “succession over generations” or “ generational” with the concept of raising and caring for the next generation.
Since Urushi is a natural sap, people tend to conceptualize “vitality” in it. I myself, however, have long been feeling somewhat uneasy about the expression. The compositional concept of “natural sap = vitality" reminds me of something like a scary fanatical animism believer.
Whether Urushi is a natural sap or not, I would say, it could be nothing more than an element and none a fundamental absoluteness.
However, I can't deny that in the process of making and working with Urushi, one feels in some way or other a sense of vitality. What, then, is the factor of this vague sense of vitality?
Based on the aforementioned concept of generativity, it seems to me that the chain of "reproduction" and “inheritance" transmitted from generation to generation from the Jomon period to the present day, could be the factor that bounds up with the "vitality" one senses in Urushi. Urushi may be a sort of an existence that imposes human beings a sense of mission to "transmit" the Urushi and it keeps working on human beings for its self-survival.
Schedule
Exhibition Archives
2020
2020.11.13 - 11.20
IZIKaWa Yoshio Solo Exhibition
2020.10.23 - 11.6
ITABASHI Hiromi Solo Exhibition ”OVERGLAZE”
2020.10.3 - 10.17
SUZUKI Hideaki Solo Exhibition
ー Ornamentation 2020 ー 2020.9.15 - 9.28 OTSUKA Mokichi Solo Exhibition 2020.8.25 - 9.7 YAMADA Hiroyuki Solo Exhibition 2020.7.27 - 8.7 Wakamon- Ten 2020 The Young Artists Group Exhibition 2020.7.2 - 7.20 UEBA Kasumi Solo Exhibition 2020.3.7 - 3.26 IRO-E Exhibition 2020.2.1 - 2.16 Three-Men Exhibition ”With Lines”
ー Ornamentation 2020 ー 2020.9.15 - 9.28 OTSUKA Mokichi Solo Exhibition 2020.8.25 - 9.7 YAMADA Hiroyuki Solo Exhibition 2020.7.27 - 8.7 Wakamon- Ten 2020 The Young Artists Group Exhibition 2020.7.2 - 7.20 UEBA Kasumi Solo Exhibition 2020.3.7 - 3.26 IRO-E Exhibition 2020.2.1 - 2.16 Three-Men Exhibition ”With Lines”
2019
2019.12.7 - 12.24
Metalwork Exhibition
2019.11.9 - 11.24
Middle-Aged Kyotoites Group Exhibition
2019.10.7 - 10.25
YAMADA Kazu Solo Exhibition ＜Drifting ashore from the past- bits & pieces of memories>
2019.9.14 - 9.29
MATSUMOTO Hideo Solo Exhibition
2019.7.6 - 7.23
WAKAMON-TEN 2019
2019.6.8 - 6.27
URUSHI Exhibition
2019.5.18 - 5.31
OHMORI Akio & his Factory Staffs Joint Exhibition ー Hazumiー
2019.4.6 - 4.23
KAWAGUCHI Jun Solo Exhibition – Pottery- Clay,Glaze,High Firing
2019.3.9 - 3.28
FUJII Shinsuke Solo Exhibition
2018
2018.12.8 - 12.22
IKEDA Kazuhiro Solo Exhibition “Kinkarakami”
2018.11.17 - 12.1
RUSU Aki Solo Exhibition
2018.10.20 - 11.3
WADA Akira Solo Exhibition
2018.9.29 - 10.9
ICHINO Masahiko Solo Exhibition
2018.8.21 - 9.18
Joint Exhibition “Autumn Bicolored”
2018.7.14 - 7.30
KANAZAWA WAKAMON EXHIBITION
2018.6.25 - 7.9
KUDO Aiko Solo Exhibition “Kaka Saisai”
2018.6.14 - 6.21
SAKAI Naoki Solo Exhibition
2018.4.19 - 5.28
EXHIBITION “IROE”
2018.4.7 - 4.16
TABATA Naoto Solo Exhibition
2017
2017.12.7 - 12.15
FUJIHIRA Yasushi Solo Exhibition
2017.11.11 - 11.30
KUDO Kaoru ” ITAE “ Exhibition
2017.10.14 - 10.30
EXHIBITION “Ihssen”
2017.9.9 - 9.28
Object
2017.7.8 - 7.27
WAKAMON-TEN
2017.6.24 - 6.30
IKEDA Shogo Solo Exhibition
2017.5.13 - 5.29
SAKAEGI Masatoshi Solo Exhibition
2017.4.1 - 4.15
UEBA Kasumi Exhibition
2016
2016.12.3 - 12.18
EXHIBITION BYOUBU/HANA
2016.11.5 - 11.20
The IROE Exhibition
2016.10.7 - 10.27
MURATA Koken Exhibition
2016.9.3 - 9.22
Exhibition of Mirror
2016.7.2 - 7.21
Wakamon-ten (Youths’ Exhibition)
2016.6.4 - 6.23
Color-it Glass Exhibition
2016.5.7 - 5.22
FUJII Shinsuke Woodwork Exhibition
2016.4.9 - 4.29
ITABASHI Hiromi Solo Exhibition
2015
2015.12.5 - 12.25 Solo Exhibition of Kazuhiro Ikeda
2015.11.7 - 11.28 Solo Exhibition of Sakurako Matsushima 2015.10.3 - 10.24 Solo Exhibition of Akito Morino 2015.9.5 - 9.23 Solo Exhibition of Akio Ohmori 2015.7.4 - 7.23 Solo Exhibition of Jun Kawaguchi 2015.6.4 - 6.27 Solo Exhibition “Fall”- Works of KATO Tsubusa 2015.5.9 - 5.30 Solo Exhibition of Harumi Yahata 2015.4.4 - 4.24 Solo Exhibition of UEBA Kasumi2014
2014.11.8 - 11.21
Four-Men Exhibition “Tsuchi-susabi”
2014.9.5 - 9.23
”Expression of Formｓ & Designs”
2014.6.28 - 7.18
Group Exhibiton “Linking up” by Iga & Kouga Groups
2014.5.10 - 5.29
Exhibition “Works by Ito Keiji”
2014.4.15 - 4.26
Exhibition “BOX”
2013
2013.12.5 - 12.14
Exhibition: “Sound and Form“
2013.11.2 - 11.19
Ki-nari Exhibition
2013.10.5 - 10.20
Shin-miyako-ishoh Exhibition
2013.6.1 - 6.14
KISHINO Tadataka・Shou・Kan’s Exhibition
2012
