Aki Moriyama and Satoshi Miyashita “Unspoken Toys”
We visited the two-person exhibition “Unspoken Toys” by Aki Moriyama and Satoshi Miyashita. The venue is MASATAKA CONTEMPORARY.
Aki Moriyama and Satoshi Miyashita “Unspoken Toys” MASATAKA CONTEMPORARY
Aki Moriyama focuses on dolls and toys as a medium, and uses them as motifs to create paintings themed around complex “human dramas” that incorporate a range of social issues such as the body, gender and sexuality, and views of the family. By depicting dolls and toys, she believes she can express something that cannot be conveyed through human gestures alone, and that this in turn raises fundamental questions about human existence.
Satoshi Miyashita coins the term “Kibutsu Sonkai (Reverent Reworking of Vessels)” for his practice of re-firing and rearranging ready-made ceramics and ceramic pieces cast from toys, overwriting them as parts of his own works. He will primarily present this series. He focuses on the differences between industrial products, art, and craft, and on the “boundary of authorship” of the overwritten works.
Installation viewAki Moriyama, “Milk,” 2019Aki Moriyama, “Tow Heart,” 2019Aki Moriyama, “Vase,” 2019Aki Moriyama, “Planter,” 2019Work by Satoshi MiyashitaWork by Satoshi MiyashitaWork by Satoshi Miyashita
“Unspoken Toys,” a two-person exhibition.
Though the works differ in medium — paintings on the one hand, ceramics on the other — both were united by a common atmosphere: pop, playful, and thoroughly enjoyable.
Aki Moriyama・Satoshi Miyashita “Unspoken Toys” MASATAKA CONTEMPORARY
Aki Moriyama는 매체로서의 인형과 완구에 주목하여, 이를 모티프로 삼아 신체, 젠더와 섹슈얼리티, 가족관 등 다양한 사회 문제를 담아낸 복잡한 “인간 드라마”를 주제로 한 회화를 제작하고 있습니다. 인형과 완구를 그림으로써, 인간의 몸짓만으로는 표현할 수 없는 것을 표현할 수 있으며, 이는 인간 존재의 본질에 대한 근원적인 문제 제기로 이어진다고 생각합니다.
Satoshi Miyashita는 기성품 도자기나 완구를 본떠 만든 도자기를 다시 소성하고 재조합하여, 자신의 작품의 일부로 덮어쓰기 저장하는 행위를 “器物尊廻(기물존회)”라 명명하며, 이 시리즈를 중심으로 발표합니다. 공업 제품과 미술, 공예의 차이. 덮어쓰기된 작품의 “작가의 경계선”에 주목하여 제작합니다.