Artist Information:
Makoto Hatori
Moriya-Shi,
Japan
Member Since: Jun 2001
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Artist Statement:
My basic and consistent
position in making pottery is
"facing tradition". Tradition,
although it presents itself as
rejecting people's
interference and intrusions,
is in fact the accumulated
"convention" of all the people
living in a specific period,
so it is possible, in any
period, for us to destroy or
reconstruct it. Tradition is
not fixed or immutable, and
the people who "create" it
live in the passing waves of
generations and in the
recurring certainty of
fatality. I consider the most
important aspect of this
fatality to be "otherness"
(not necessarily only of human
beings), and have observed
this aspect in the traditional
spirit of Japanese pottery.
The relation with the kiln as
a tool, with my materials,
with myself and with observers
-- the relation with "others"
-- involves intuiting the
margin that is to be shared.
For myselfas a
creator/presenter, the pursuit
of "otherness" amounts to
intuiting that margin....
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Artist Exhibitions:
[Selected International
Exhibitions]
1993/ 48th Faenza
International Ceramic Art
Competition, Italy
1994/ Fletcher Challenge
Ceramics Award 1994, New
Zealand
1994/ The 2nd Cairo
International Biennial for
Ceramics, Egypt
1996/ Fletcher Challenge
Ceramics Award 1996, New
Zealand
1996/ International Biennial
Ceramic Festival in Andenne,
Belgium
1996/ Salzbrand Keramik '96,
Handwerkskammer Koblenz...
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Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Reviews:
"Ancient Style, Modern
Sensibility" -by Andy Cordy
Ceramic Review -U.K.- / May
June 1993 - Number 141
"Makoto Hatori" - by Shane
Enright
Studio Pottery -U.K.- / August
Septmber 1993 - Number 4
"Makoto Hatori"
Ceramics monthly -U.S.A.- /
Febuary 1994
"Comment un potier japonais
voit la position de la
ceramique sur...
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Collections:
[ Public Collection ]
The British Museum (UK)
Victoria & Albert Museum (UK)
Stoke-on-Trent City Museum
(UK)
Manchester City Art Gallery
(UK)
Reading City Museum (UK)
Panevezyo Civic Art Gallery
(Lithuania)
The Liturgical Art Gulld (USA)
Zanesville Art Center (USA)
Victorian Ceramic Group
Incorporated (Australia)
Pretoria Art Museum (Gauteng,
South Africa...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Makoto Hatori's Free Artist Portfolio
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My basic and consistent position in making pottery is "facing tradition". Tradition, although it presents itself as rejecting people's interference and intrusions, is in fact the accumulated "convention" of all the people living in a specific period, so it is possible, in any period, for us to destroy or reconstruct it. Tradition is not fixed or immutable, and the people who "create" it live in the passing waves of generations and in the recurring certainty of fatality. I consider the most important aspect of this fatality to be "otherness" (not necessarily only of human beings), and have observed this aspect in the traditional spirit of Japanese pottery. The relation with the kiln as a tool, with my materials, with myself and with observers -- the relation with "others" -- involves intuiting the margin that is to be shared. For myselfas a creator/presenter, the pursuit of "otherness" amounts to intuiting that margin.... |
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