オープニングレセプション：7月20日（水）18:00～20:00

*アーティストトーク：7月20日（水）18:30〜

 

Opening reception: Wednesday, July 20, 6pm-8pm

*Artist talk: Wednesday, July 20, 6:30pm-

 

 

 

横山拓也の作品は、豊かな質感と人の手の跡を感じさせる造形で、圧倒的な存在感を放ちます。繊細な印象の白い作品、力強く輝く黒い作品、さりげない佇まいの緑の作品。色、質感、形が共鳴し合い、それぞれが「あるべき」状態に作り上げられたように見えます。

作家は作品を理想の形に近づけるのではなく、素材の導きを辿るようにかたちづくります。展覧会タイトルにある「テクネー」は「テクノロジー」の語源となるギリシャ語で、人間が自然の中に真理を発見し、開示する技術を指します。横山の陶芸には「テクネー」と同様の作用が働きます。粘土に触れ少しずつ力を加えるうち、素材独自の運動が見えてくる。それに応えてアシストするうち、粘土の意思に沿った形になってゆく。土を制するのではなく、素材との共同作業で既にそこにあるものをすくいとるように作陶してゆきます。素材と自身の運動の連なりによる制作活動を、横山は「演技や踊りに近い、より身体的で、スポーツのような要素がある」と表現します。

本展覧会に出展された「壺」には、大きな自然の中に潜んだ丸い形をそのまま引き出してきたような壮大さがあります。天辺に2mm程度の小さな穴があることから作品は壺とも、その穴の微小さからオブジェとも捉えることができます。横山は芸術・工芸というカテゴリーにとらわれることなく、素材と自身の成し得る柔軟な表現を切り開きます。

 

横山拓也は1973年神奈川県生まれ、立教大学社会学部卒業。大学時代、陶芸サークルでやきものに出会い、卒業後は多治見市陶磁器意匠研究所を経て、現在は岐阜県多治見市にて作陶しています。東京、横浜、名古屋、ソウルなど各地で個展を多数開催。TKGエディションズ京都にて2013年に開催以来、3年ぶり2度目の個展となります。

 

 

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Takuya Yokoyama’s works possess a rich impression of their materiality, while they confer an overwhelming sense of presence through the process of their molding within which traces of the artist’s hand may be felt. There is a delicate impression to the white works, a powerful strength and shine to the black works, and a nonchalant bearing to the green works. Colour, texture and form resonate together within Yokoyama’s pieces, and each one appears as if created in the exact state as it supposed to be existed.

The artist does not make works by gradually approaching to the piece’s ideal form, but by creating them as if he is following the guidance of the material itself. The word ‘techne’ in the exhibition’s title is the Greek word for ‘technology’, and points to the notion of humanity discovering truth within nature, and the consequent revelation of technology. Yokoyama’s ceramics function similar to ‘techne’ :whilst working with the clay little by little, the medium’s characteristic motion becomes visible. As the artist ‘assists’ in response to that, the form of the work runs alongside his actions and develops with the original intention of the clay. It is an act not of controlling or ruling over the clay, but of working together with the material to extract what is already within. This is the essential nature of Yokoyama’s porcelain-making process. Through a practice wrought through his continuous motions and the medium, Yokoyama expresses what he describes as “something close to performance or dance, but more realistic, with a sports-like component to it”.

The ‘Pots’ of this exhibition bear magnificence to them, seeming as if taken from their concealment within the vastness of nature in their rounded form as they already were. With barely 2mm-small hole at its top, the work is at once a pot, but can also be grasped in the sense of an objet from the microscopic size of that hole. Yokoyama is not concerned with a positioning within the category of Arts & Crafts, but instead with opening up the pliability of expression of his materials, and of his own capabilities as an artist.

 

Takuya Yokoyama was born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1973, and graduated from Rikkyo University in the Department of Sociology. While a university student, he encountered ceramics through an extra-curricular ceramics club, spent years at Tajimi City Pottery Design and Technical Center after graduated. Today he creates ceramic work in Tajimi city, Gifu prefecture. He has held numerous solo shows to date in Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya and Seoul among others. Since exhibiting at TKG Editions in Kyoto in 2013, this will be his second solo exhibition (and his first in three years) with Tomio Koyama Gallery.