[Kijishi Co., Ltd.] “Notice of Solo Exhibition “I Feel Fine”” Gijishi Co., Ltd. will be holding a solo exhibition by Taichi Hori.
*Kijishi Co., Ltd.*
Press release: September 18, 2024
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“Notice of Solo Exhibition “I Feel Fine”” Gijishi Co., Ltd. will be holding a solo exhibition by Taichi Hori.
*An exhibition where Taichi Hori explores the theme of “despair.” Please come and visit us. *
Starting Friday, October 4, 2024, a solo exhibition by Taichi Hori from Gifu Prefecture, “I Feel Fine,” will be held at “Niwa Bunko” in Ena City, Gifu Prefecture.
This exhibition is titled “I Feel Fine” and considers the concept of “despair.” I would appreciate it if you could take a look.
(C)Taichi Hori ”Wall” 2024
(C)Taichi Hori “The one who pulls the string” 2022
■About this exhibition
This exhibition is by Taichi Hori, who is also the representative director of Gijishi Co., Ltd. Taichi Hori runs the ceramic tableware brand “Dodoro” based on Mino Momoyama pottery, and also works under his own name.
This time, I will be exhibiting as a solo exhibition as one of my activities under my own name.
In addition to works using clay, watercolor paintings will also be on display. [Event overview]
Title: “I Feel Fine”
Date: October 4th (Friday) – October 28th (Monday), 2024 13:00 – 18:00 Venue Niwa Bunko (1462-3 Kawai, Kasagi-cho, Ena City, Gifu Prefecture) Closed on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays
Admission fee: Free
[Hori Taichi]
(C)Gaku Kusakari
Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1985. Representative director of Kigishi Co., Ltd. His father was Toshiro Hori, who studied under the late Kozo Kato, an Important Intangible Cultural Property, for nearly 40 years, and he became familiar with pottery from an early age. Graduated from Musashino Art University Department of Architecture in 2010. Graduated from Tajimi City Ceramic Design Institute in 2013. After that, until 2015, he will continue to work at the Marunuma Art Forest in Asaka City, Saitama Prefecture. In 2016, he returned to Gifu and worked as an office worker, while in 2022 he launched the ceramic tableware brand “Dodoro” based on Mino Momoyama ceramics. ” is operated.
Solo exhibition
2015 Secret of Taichi / Steps Gallery / Ginza, Tokyo
2016 The Human Condition / Makii Masaru Fine Arts / Asakusabashi, Tokyo 2017 in your room. / MERRY ART GALLERY / Kanagawa/Yokohama
2019 Taichi Hori Exhibition / Striped House Gallery / Roppongi, Tokyo Exhibition view of the 2019 “Taichi Hori Pottery Exhibition” 2016 “The Human Condirion” exhibition view
Statement from the artist regarding this exhibition
nice to meet you. My name is Taichi Hori. For those of you who haven’t seen me in a while, I’m sorry. I grew up in Kani City, Gifu
Prefecture, and have been holding solo exhibitions of this and that since 2015. Recently, we have also been running a tableware brand called Dodo, which is based on Mino Momoyama ceramics. While I’m making tableware, I’m also kneading clay wherever my hands go, drawing watercolors and composing music every night. This time, we will be exhibiting pottery and watercolors created “as the hands go”.
First of all, I have to explain why the phrase “let my hands take me” is a bit of a strange expression. I’ll take Niwa Bunko as an example, which I’ll be exhibiting this time.
One day, I heard about Niwa Bunko and felt like I had to go there. When I went there, the books lined up looked similar to my bookshelf. When I learned that I would be able to hold an exhibition, I began to feel an incomprehensible sense of mission: “I have to hold a solo exhibition here!” When we talked about it, Mr. Momose immediately agreed. I felt a strange sense of security, knowing that I could accomplish my mission.
Thank you Momose-san.
I don’t really understand what the “mission” here is. Can you see that there is another me somewhere, separate from my consciousness, and that I am disconnected from my other self’s consciousness? Like with Niwa Bunko, I was invited to a place, and even though I only knew the person’s face, I felt a sense of mission, thinking, “I have to talk to them properly,” and then I got a call from the other side, and I didn’t get in touch with them. When I tried it, things started happening…
I move where my feet take me and my heart takes me. I wonder if Julian Jaynes would call this feeling of mine a “bifurcated mind” (Note 1)?
That’s how I live my life, regardless of purpose, means, cause, or result. Somewhere in my heart, I always think, “It just has to be the way it is.” Maybe it’s because I myself recognize that “human actions are a natural phenomenon that humans perform.”
In particular, I feel that art faithfully expresses natural phenomena caused by humans. I feel like my hands are thinking, drawing, and creating on their own. Knowing that there is a body that is mine but not mine, I create things as my hands go, and create things that the work itself thinks about, separating me from myself as the creator. When I look back at the work I made later on, as a viewer, I feel a lot of interesting things about it, and as the title suggests, it’s self-congratulation, local production, local destruction.
Yes, even I, the creator, can only face my work as a viewer. That’s why I sit facing the artist at every solo exhibition, but to be honest, I’m just one of the viewers.
Gradually, I began to feel a certain kind of emotion toward the works that were born out of the artist’s spirit. When I was wondering what it was, I thought it might be something called “despair.” This is because you cannot understand the work that has been created, nor can you do anything with it as an author, so you are completely powerless.
However, this “despair” surprisingly didn’t feel bad. In the face of this “despair,” which is close to a kind of resignation, all one has to do is simply accept the work as it comes, and there is no such thing as good or bad in the work. All you have to do is celebrate the new work, just like you would when a child was born.
“Despair” gives an impression of feeling refreshed, “I feel fine!”. Therefore, the title of this exhibition is “I Feel Fine.”
Note 1: Julian Jaynes, “The Silence of the Gods: The Birth of Consciousness and the Rise and Fall of Civilization”, Kinokuniya Bookstore, 2005
Kigishi Co., Ltd.
Kigishi Co., Ltd. was established in 2023. In addition to organizing exhibitions of ceramic artists Toshiro Hori and Taichi Hori, they also operate the Mino Momoyama ceramic tableware brand Dodoro, which aims to popularize Mino Momoyama ceramics and pass on traditional techniques.
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