Exhibitions
Art as action—The abstract according to Masakazu Horiuti 「堀内正和「芸術という作用ー堀内正和の抽象」」
“Art as action—The abstract according to Masakazu Horiuti”
会期:2023年 5月12日(金)- 6月8日(木)
会場:Yumiko Chiba Associates
〒160-0032 東京都港区六本木6-4-1 六本木ヒルズ ハリウッドビューティープラザ 3F
営業時間: 12:00-19:00 定休日: 日、月、祝日
このたび、ユミコチバアソシエイツでは、日本の抽象彫刻という概念の成立に寄与し、近代と現代の彫刻史をつなぐ重要な作家である堀内正和(1911-2001)の個展を開催いたします。
1920年代から彫刻家として発表を始め、終戦後は、芸術を精神に直接働きかける道具としたアール・コンクレ(具体美術)を手掛かりに一貫して抽象の道を歩み、形の原理を見つめるなかで幾何の形態学を追求しました。堀内はアトリエのない彫刻家として知られ、形を試行錯誤するマケットの制作こそ自らの芸術だと公言しました。根幹にあったのは、戦時下に深めた抽象美術と言語学に依拠する、芸術とは物ではなく意識の作用であるという理念です。美という観念を揺るぎない実在にしようとする彫刻のパラドクス――堀内はこの逆説を引き寄せ、文学や哲学を読みこんだ形の知的遊戯のなかに彫刻の在処を見出しました。その思索の軌跡は、戦後日本美術史に独自の地歩を築いています。
本展では堀内の制作過程や思考を窺える資料を交え、40年代の具象彫刻から抽象を追求し始めた50年代、幾何学形体に依拠し透明な思考の実態化を追求した70年代から90年代の彫刻とデッサンを紹介します。
堀内正和の個展をぜひご高覧ください。
本展開催にあたり、神奈川県立近代美術館学芸員菊川亜騎氏に多大なるご協力をいただきました。
ここに深く感謝申し上げます。
■関連情報
【書籍刊行】(予定)
『芸術という作用ー堀内正和の抽象』
著者:菊川 亜騎(神奈川県立近代美術館 学芸員)
発行予定日:令和5年7月中
発行:Yumiko Chiba Associates
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Friday, May 12 - Thursday, June 8, 2023
Venue: Yumiko Chiba Associates
ROPPONGI HILLS Hollywood Beauty Plaza 3rd Floor,6-4-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032, Japan
Gallery Hours: 12:00 - 19:00 (Closed on Sundays, Mondays, and national holidays)
Yumiko Chiba Associates is delighted to present a new exhibition devoted to the work of Masakazu Horiuti (1911–2001), a significant artist who helped to establish the concept of abstract sculpture in Japan, and whose long career serves as a link between modern and contemporary sculptural history.
Debuting as a sculptor in the 1920s, after the war Horiuti took his cue from concrete art's view of art as a tool directly shaping the spirit, and devoted himself entirely to the abstract, exploring geometric morphology amid an interrogation of the principles of form. Known as the sculptor without a studio, he once declared that his own art really lay in the making of the maquettes used to trial different forms, a stance underpinned by his belief that art is not a thing but an action of the consciousness. This was in turn grounded in the abstract art and linguistic studies he pursued to a deepening degree during wartime. Horiuti gathered into himself the paradox of sculpture—the way it tries to turn the idea of beauty into unshakeable reality—and located sculpture within an intellectual flirtation with form that embraced literature and philosophy. The trajectory of these form-based meditations earned Horiuti a unique place in postwar Japanese art history.
Alongside precious archive material offering insight into the practicalities of Horiuti's art-making, and the thinking behind it, this exhibition will present sculptures and drawings from the artist's figurative pieces of the 1940s, to the 1950s when he turned toward the abstract, and the years from the 1970s to the 1990s when he explored the use of geometric forms to hypostatize ideas of pellucid simplicity.
In closing, allow us to express our deepest gratitude to Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama curator Aki Kikugawa for her generous cooperation in organizing this exhibition. Thank you.
■Related Information
[Publication]
A catalog will be published.
Art as action—The abstract according to Masakazu Horiuti
Written by Aki Kikukawa, Curator, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama
Publication Date: July, 2023 (scheduled)
Published by: Yumiko Chiba Associates
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