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Koji Shiraya "To Keep Moving, You Must Keep Your Balance."
Cohju Contemporary Art
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Koji Shiraya
Koji Shiraya was born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1980, completed a master's degree in ceramics and glass at the Royal College of Art, London (2010), and is currently based in his native Hyogo Prefecture.
He has produced works such as "Trinary," in which silica (SiO₂), alumina (Al₂O₃), and lime (CaO), the main components of the earth's crust, are mixed and fired in different proportions to present various aspects of material change due to differences in their melting points, and "The Myriad White Spheres," made of magnetic clay, in environments such as Bath Temple in England and the former Shinkyo Elementary School in Okayama Prefecture. In "After the Dream," an installation of countless white spheres made of porcelain clay are arranged in the environment of Bath Temple in England and the former Shinkyo Elementary School in Okayama Prefecture to express the infinite cycle of life in the long history of the world and the form of the heart in a community.
In this solo exhibition, Shiraya's first at COHJU contemporary art in five years, he will present "After the Rain," a work he has been working on for some time, in which he records traces of water's power and shape by applying various amounts and conditions of water and actual rain to a white plate composed of the above three components, and "After the Dream," a work that focuses on melting, in which he creates a fluid glaze by controlling materials and heat. In addition to the two representative series, "The World," which focuses on melting and retaining the fluid shape of the glaze by controlling the material and heat, the artist will present "White Square," a new experiment.
In "White Square", the artist has captured the appearance of densely arranged grains of different sizes melting together and bonding to form a single plate. How the grains melt and bond together varies according to their composition, size, firing temperature, and spacing, expressing the relationship between the individual and the collective, the beauty and loss of melting, and the equilibrium between them.
He has produced works such as "Trinary," in which silica (SiO₂), alumina (Al₂O₃), and lime (CaO), the main components of the earth's crust, are mixed and fired in different proportions to present various aspects of material change due to differences in their melting points, and "The Myriad White Spheres," made of magnetic clay, in environments such as Bath Temple in England and the former Shinkyo Elementary School in Okayama Prefecture. In "After the Dream," an installation of countless white spheres made of porcelain clay are arranged in the environment of Bath Temple in England and the former Shinkyo Elementary School in Okayama Prefecture to express the infinite cycle of life in the long history of the world and the form of the heart in a community.
In this solo exhibition, Shiraya's first at COHJU contemporary art in five years, he will present "After the Rain," a work he has been working on for some time, in which he records traces of water's power and shape by applying various amounts and conditions of water and actual rain to a white plate composed of the above three components, and "After the Dream," a work that focuses on melting, in which he creates a fluid glaze by controlling materials and heat. In addition to the two representative series, "The World," which focuses on melting and retaining the fluid shape of the glaze by controlling the material and heat, the artist will present "White Square," a new experiment.
In "White Square", the artist has captured the appearance of densely arranged grains of different sizes melting together and bonding to form a single plate. How the grains melt and bond together varies according to their composition, size, firing temperature, and spacing, expressing the relationship between the individual and the collective, the beauty and loss of melting, and the equilibrium between them.
Schedule | Jun 24 (Sat) 2023-Aug 19 (Sat) 2023 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://www.cohju.com/ja/exhibitions/45-to-keep-moving-you-must-keep-your-balance.-koji-shiraya-solo-exhibition/overview/ | ||||
| Venue | Cohju Contemporary Art https://www.cohju.com/ | ||||
| Location | 1F Cohju Bldg., 557 Bishamon-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto 604-0981 | ||||
| Access | 5 minute walk from exit 1 at Jingu-marutamachi Station on the Keihan line, 10 minute walk from exit 1 at Marutamachi Station on the Karasuma subway line. | ||||
| Phone | 075-256-4707 | ||||
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