Hoshino Satoru

BiographySatoru Hoshino is one of the most important contemporary Japanese ceramicists.He was born in 1945 in the Niigata Prefecture, Japan, and became a member ofSōdeisha, an innovative avant-garde movement founded by Kazuo Yagi in 1948recognized for the application of non-functionality principles to the ceramic arts.His unique artworks express his respect for the natural world. Read More

When working on clay, he pushes the clay with his fingers, never allowing his mind to intervene in the relationship between body and matter, allowing the shapes to emerge out of thespace between the clay he uses as a material and his own body. The final shapecomes from a certain collaborative confrontation between nature and human thatexpresses the dynamism of that natural energy, rather than an imposition of his ownwill on the material. This kind of approach, the desire to remain faithful to the naturalmaterial feeling of the clay and its intrinsic attributes, is, in his opinion, somethingvery Japanese. His work is in over thirty permanent collections, including: Victoria and AlbertMuseum, London, United Kingdom; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto,Japan; International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy; The Shigaraki CeramicCultural Park, Shiga, Japan; Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia; ProvinceMuseum of Modern Art, Ostend, Belgium; Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu,Japan; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota, USA; The International CeramicsStudio, Kecskemet, Hungary; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia;Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland; among others.