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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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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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Reviews for Makoto Hatori:
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"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 marche mondial" - by Makoto Hatoti
CERAMIQUE MODERNE -France- / Fevrier 1994 - Number 377
"Studies in Bizen Ware" - by Masutarou Murata
Craft Arts International -Australia- / 1994 - Number 30
"Facing Tradition" -by Makoto Hatori
Ceramics monthly -U.S.A- / May 1995
"An invitation to Lithuania" -by Makoto Hatori
TOUSETSU - A Monthly Journal Published by The Japan Ceramic Society- / December 1996, January 1997, February 1997
"A Potter's Look at Tradition" - by Makoto Hatori
Ceramics monthly -U.S.A.- / January 1997
"An Impression of Earth and Fire '97 " -by Makoto Hatori
TOUSETSU - A Monthly Journal Published by The Japan Ceramic Society- / October 1997
"Lithuania, Panevezys International Ceramic Symposium"
-by Makoto Hatori
TOUSETSU - A Monthly Journal Published by The Japan Ceramic Society- / October 1998
"Two Wheels of Japan" -by Makoto Hatori
Ceramics monthly -U.S.A.- / March 1999
"Architecture in Potters - Lithuania, Panevezys International Ceramic Symposium-" -by Makoto Hatori
CPA News - The Newsletter of the Craft Potters Association of Great Britain- / January,Febuary 1999
"A propos de l' exposition -Face a la tradition-" - by Kyo Kageura
CERAMIQUE MODERNE -France-/ Aout 2000 - Number 448
"Kaiseki " -by Makoto Hatori
CPA News - The Newsletter of the Craft Potters Association of Great Britain- / March,April 2001
"Beauty of Soul, Beauty of Form: Naturally-glazed Ceramics and Haiku"
-by Makoto Hatori
The Log Book(Ireland)/ Issue 22. 2005
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