【8/21/2018(火) オープニング / 2018年8月20日～27日：備前焼陶芸家・松井宏之氏のNY個展とレクチャー開催】
【2018年8月20日～27日：備前焼陶芸家・松井宏之氏のNY個展と備前レクチャー開催】
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●個展：2018年8月20日～25日＠天理ギャラリーにて開催。
●8月21日(火)オープニングレセプション＠天理ギャラリー
18時～20時：どなたでご参加いただけます。
ぜひお越しください。備前焼の説明あり。
●8月26日(日)のジャパンフェスにも備前焼ブース出店予定。
●8月27日(月)：UJAP-Resobox EV店にて備前レクチャー開催(英語)。
備前焼も数点、広報ＰＲ販売します。
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＜備前焼・松井氏の陶芸への想い＞
★妥協なき作陶★
陶器を制作する上で、適切な時間をかけ土・窯・蒔にこだわるのはとても重要です。
途中で妥協せず、古きを温め、新たな素材・技巧・機会も貪欲に試す
備前焼陶芸家アーティスト：松井宏之氏
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US-JAPAN Art Promotion
(c/o NY Marketing Business Action, Inc.)
★★★8/21(Tues) Save the DATE!! Join Us!! ★★★
【BIZEN Artist Mr. Hiroyuki MATSUI’s Solo Exhibition in NY】
– Opening Reception will be held on 8/21/2018
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*Opening Reception: 8/21/2018 (Tues) 6 – 8pm
*Open term: 8/20 (Mon ) – 8/25 (Sat)
*Place: Tenri Gallery
43 West 13th Street, New York NY 10011
*Gallery Hours: Mon – Thurs 12-6 pm
Saturday 12-3 pm
Sunday & Friday closed
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Bizen artist, Mr. Hiroyuki Matsui from Hyogo prefecture will introduce a traditional Japanese pottery, Bizen ceramics, and its history. For more than 20 years, Matsui has created many beautiful and powerful exhibitions around Japan and the Asia hemisphere.
■About Bizen Ceramics■
Bizen Ceramics is a prestigious and traditional Japanese ceramic with a thousand-year-old history. As of yet, it has not been introduced outside of Asia but Hiroyuki Matsui is gradually spreading the art around the world.
Bizen was developed during the Momoyama era (around 450 years ago) and has the highest reputation among ceramic collectors in Japan.
Most of the works are burned in a huge kiln (50m in length, 5m in width, and around 2-3m in height). However, these kilns were ruined due to the economy around 200 years ago. Now, there are many individual small kilns that exist for Bizen but the quality of these works are not as great as it was years ago.
Matsui is currently in charge of a 15-year long project reconstructing huge kilns for Bizen.
Each burning period lasts several months to completely burn the works. In the normal cases of creating Bizen, burning takes around 1-2 weeks but other ceramics in Japan are normally completed in 1-3 days.
At one point, an 85 m kiln was burned for 107 days (24 hours a day) continuously.
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NY Coordinator
US-JAPAN Art Promotion (c/o NY Marketing Business Action, Inc.)
Email: usjapanartpromotion@gmail.com
hiroko.furuichi@ny-mba.com
【備前焼陶芸家：松井宏之氏】
野村証券、外務省職員(アジア太平洋地域担当)を経て備前焼陶芸家の道へ：
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陶芸家への道. 39歳の時に陶芸の道に入りました。
遅いスタートです。三つの点をじっくりと考え、この道に進むことを決断しました。
第一 この道を突き詰めていくに当たり、 自分が求めるところに到達できる可能性はどのくらいあるのか、勝算はあるのか？
例えば、ピアノの演奏家になりたいと思い40歳近くから始めても、技術面での課題が多すぎて、プロとやっていくことはまず不可能でしょう。深く曲を読み込み、自分が表現したいことを思い描くことが出来て、たくさん練習したとしても、それを弾く技量は習得困難でしょう。
★陶芸はどうでしょうか。
陶芸においては、中でも備前焼においては、技巧面よりその人間の歩んできた様々の経験、人間性、思想などが大きな部分を占めていると思っています。
過去の名品を見て、その作者の履歴を重ね合わせてみると、それを裏付ける多くの事例に出会えます。演奏家と対比してみると、その違いは明らかでした。
備前の故藤原啓氏(人間国宝)が、40歳近くになって備前焼をはじめ、実家が窯元などの陶芸関係の仕事をしているわけではなく、以前の仕事も陶芸と関係なかったことを知り、
私がこの道に進むと決断するうえで、大きな後押しとなりました。
勝負してみよう。
(松井)
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■Hiroyuki Matsui Bizen Artist■
Hiroyuki Matsui was born in June 1960 in Hyogo Prefecture. In 1984, he graduated from Sophia University with a degree in English Language & Foreign Studies. He further continued his education in 1987 and received his master degree at the Graduate School of Sophia. He later entered the international financial department at Nomura Sec. Co., Ltd and further continued to work for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (APEC).
Matsui started his work with Bizen Ceramics following Master Tougaku Mori as-as member of the Neo Ogama Project in 2001, when he was 69 years old. In 2005, he attended the 5th kiln burning of 53 m for 66 days. The next year, Master Tougaku permitted him to build his own kiln (20 m) in his hometown. The first burning of his personal kiln took place April 2008 and he has burned it 7 times as of 2015.
Currently, Matsui is in charge of a 15-year long project reconstructing huge kilns for Bizen.
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