White Trichogomphus
Main Gallery Area Artist
White spider
Artist Information
Takaharu Hori
1996 Born in Tokyo
2016 Graduated from Aichi Prefectural Seto Ceramic High School Major
2017 “ASIA CONTEMPORARY ART” Conrad Hong Kong (Hong Kong,China)
2017 “SINGAPORE CONTEMPORARY A WORLD OF ART”Suntech Singapore Convention (Singapore)
2018 “Tokyo Art Fair”Tokyo International Forum (Tokyo,Japan)
2018 “Form of Bugs・Solo exhibit”Yamanoue Gallery (Ishikawa,Japan)
2018 “TakaharuHori's world・Solo exhibition”DiEGO (Tokyo,Japan)
Insects you like from now when I was young ... Collections in mountains and rivers, rearing at home Insects for me is a special existence that gave me lots of knowledge and ideas. I got hints of production from that insect and I am daily working on it. I will not make a work that faithfully reproduces the real thing. The real thing is the most beautiful, no matter how you shape it, you can not surpass it. That's why I'd like to create a shape that exceeds the real thing by replacing the original form with the artistic beauty that I feel in my work and the structural interest.
Selector
Chief curator of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
[Comment by Selector]
After graduating in 2016 from Aichi Prefectural Seto Pottery High School (Advanced Course), Hori joined the Kanazawa Utatsuyama Kogei Kobo, a craft workshop. He is a bright, up-and-coming young craft artist. In recent years he has been energetically working on a quite fascinating white porcelain series that uses insects as motifs. Therein, these living things’ vivid movements add a dynamic touch to this hard material. Hori has an innate affinity for bugs. He systematically and closely observes their bodies’ structures and incorporates their natural forms into his artworks. Creating a vessel with a handle shaped like a crustacean leg, a plate inspired by the many eyes of a dragonfly, and so on, he feels that well-crafted natural forms themselves are beautiful. One can sense his taste not only in the smooth and hard surfaces unique to white porcelain, but also his combining of them with gravely ones. Hori is an artist with technical prowess whose works we can continue to anticipate.