GUTAI - Japanese art movement

Shiraga Kazuo

Shiraga Kazuo

Shiraga Kazuo

Murakami Saburo

Murakami Saburo

Shimamoto Syozo

Shimamoto Syozo

Gutai is a postwar art movement in Japan. They explored the relationship between human body and materials. Recently, their works are attentiond as pioneer of performance art and happening. They tried to make original expressions by challenging new motions.

Repeat of Action

In the videos, I repeat simple action (throw, hold in my mouth). 

The idea came from Brancusi's endless column. Repetition give us image of endless.

I find this project relate to Gutai that is Japanese art movement. Because they  explored relationship between objects and human body and made unique art pieces by eccentric actions.I want to develop this project by relate to Gutai.

Power of White

Inoue Manji

China  Song dynasty 

Kuroda Taizo

Komatsu Makoto

White porcelain  has the long history around the world and there is a huge number of clear glaze. Combination of White body and clare glaze make ceramic work easy to see their shapes and textures.
And white is a very strong colour in recently contemporary ceramic art  pieces that have colourful glazes. White porcelain is important way to make my works that have complex shapes. I have to start to experiment with suitable clear glazes for my works.

Interim Show Brixton East

    I showed four pieces of ceramic works and video on a laptop. Most of viewers focused on video. I need to think about how to show my works. The making processes are very important points of my work, and display both video works and ceramics is good way to describe it. However, it looks performance art and ceramics looks like support objects.  I need to explore best balance to show both process and ceramics.   

    I showed unglazed ceramics in this show. Glaze is a very important element of ceramics and it will change atmosphere of my works. I need to find out suitable glaze for my works.

Richard Deacon -ceramic works-

Richard Deacon(born 1949) is a British sculptor and a winner of the Turner Prize. His works are made of many kinds of materials( wood, polycarbonate, leather, metal etc).Recently, he put effort into making ceramic works.


He treats ceramics as one of material to make sculpture, its different from familiar ceramic artists who focus on only ceramics. Therefore his works have unique points, for example his glazing is not restricted by traditional ceramic rules or styles.


Untraditional way is a attractive point of his works, I think I have to consider ceramics except stereotype. But I Cannot forget my standing point as a ceramic artist, in other words, I also need to reconsider attractive points of traditional ceramics.

Repetition minimal art

Carl Andre

Donald Judd

Dan Flavin

Brancusi's endless column influenced Carl Andre. Then a lot of minimal artists adopted repetition in their works. Their works are good references like Brancusi's works.

I tried to make sculpture by repeat of similar ceramic unites. However it was totally same as other minimal artists. I need to develop 'repartition' by other way.

Constantin Brancusi - Endless Column-

Endless Column      

Constantin Brancusi(1876-1957) was a Romanian-born sculptor. 

Constantin Brancusi’s Endless Column is the important work to research the relationship between scale and art. This work made by repetition of simple units, and he made image of endless by this way. This idea is useful to make huge scale work by limited craft work.