ShugoArts

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ShugoArts will present a group exhibition titled The Methods Speak, featuring five artists.

This exhibition focuses on the five artists’ unique practices that showcase their uses of materials and creative techniques, and how these contribute to the individuality of their works. It also aims to show how the distinctive methods each artist has developed enable their diverse originality. By focusing on materials and techniques, the exhibition hopes to provide visitors with new perspectives on art history and artistic inspiration. We invite you to enjoy the experience of contemplating the “reasons” behind their various approaches as you engage with their works.

ShugoArts, January 2025

 

Yoriko TAKABATAKE, CANVAS, 2024, jute, glue, oil, pigment, panel, 58x109cm

 

Shigeo TOYA, Metamorphosis into Woods II, 2003, wood, wood ashes, acrylic, 155x30x36cm(left), 155×32ｘ38cm(right)

 

The Methods Speak
Leiko IKEMURA, Masato KOBAYASHI, Yoriko TAKABATAKE, Shigeo TOYA
Guest artist: Masaomi YASUNAGA 
Dates: 22 February – 5 April, 2025
Venue: ShugoArts
Hours: 11am ‒ 6pm, Closed on Sun, Mon and Public Holidays
Supported by Nonaka-Hill

 

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Leiko IKEMURA  Works and Info  Library
Masato KOBAYASHI  Works and Info  Library
Yoriko TAKABATAKE  Works and Info  Library
Shigeo TOYA  Works and Info  Library

Guest artist: Masaomi YASUNAGA
Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1982. Lives & works in Iga-shi, Mie Prefecture. While at University, Yasunaga established his creative direction at the laboratory of Satoru Hoshino, a coterie of the avant-garde ceramic group “Sodeisha”. While pottery is often made of clay and baked in a kiln, Yasunaga takes the form of pottery using glaze for his creations instead. Yasunaga masters creativity by combining unique raw materials such as feldspars, glass and metal powders, with his own methods such as creating glazed vessels with increased viscosity which are then pit fired in sand.

Selected solo exhibitions: “discoveries from picking up stones”, Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles , 2023; “Masaomi Yasunaga: In Holding Close”, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn, Alabama, 2023; “Intersection of Dreams, Palomar, Pognana Lario”, Palomar, Pognana Lario, 2022; “Looking Afar”, Lisson Gallery, New York, 2022; “Empty Landscape”, Libby Leshgold Gallery, Vancouver, 2020; “Masaomi Yasunaga”, Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles, 2019 “Memory of Orient”, Gallery Utsuwa Note, Kawagoe, Saitama, 2018.

 

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Top image:
Masaomi YASUNAGA, Melting vessel, 2024, glaze, colored glaze, slip, copper, kaolin, 60x38x39cm
© Masaomi Yasunaga. Courtesy of the artist and Nonaka-Hill.

All images:
Photo by Shigeo Muto, ShugoArts