Ceramics: Art and Perception

Hoshino Saturo at LIXIL Gallery, Tokyo

Hoshino Satoru (b. 1945), has established an international reputation through residencies and guest teaching, and for his large installations. While this gallery is a modest space, low-ceilinged and windowless, he transformed it into a dark field of motion with his . Two masses on the long side walls of the rectangular space were composed of hundreds of pinched and smoked clay elements of gray and black tones, ranging in size from a tiny wad to a forearm-length clump. Both masses begin with small parts scattered nearly floor to ceiling,

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