BEGINNING FORM - SPIRAL

Satoru Hoshino’s work is process driven. His installation, made of multiples, emerges from a “collision” of clay and hand. The form holds the mark of his hand and brings out the inner life of the clay at the point of interaction. After a natural disaster, a landslide in 1986, clay became more than a just material, containing within it the rhythms of nature and time itself. It is the clay’s ability to hold memory, such as the embedded fingerprint, that inspires Satoru’s practice. The artist considers his interaction with clay to be collaborative, and not an imposition of his own will. He writes eloquently on his process for Ceramics: Art and Perception, explaining that “I engage in a dialogue with the clay as it sits in front of me, as a soft, flexible lump of matter. This dialogue is carried out through a form of body language: the primitive action of pressing parts of my body (my fingers) against the body of the clay…” Primarily motivated by his rhythmic process, Satoru feels that through his material and creative process he gains a connection to the universe.

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SATORU HOSHINO is based in Japan and graduated from Ritsumeikan University. Saturo has multiple awards from Japan and conducts workshops worldwide. He was an associate professor at the Environment Design department of Osaka Sangyo University. He has had several solo exhibitions in prestigious museums such as The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, the Musée Ariana, Geneva, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota among others. His work is in many public and private collections.