Sadaharu Horio at Art Space Niji - Kyoto
I like going to Horio's
exhibitions/performances because one never knows what to expect and at times
I'm pretty sure he doesn't either. Ones guess is that Horio's exhibitions and
performances have nowadays attain a kind of randomness that many artists may well aspire too and interestingly his system of
creating appears to confirm this, as he travels light to his next venue,
ready to create, through a system in praxis that contains the minimum of delay, so
the artwork can just pour off his nervous system.
Such
unexpected or let’s say spontaneous art by artists is really hard to do,
but Horio deconstructs the art space or gallery into his own studio area, he seems not to separate the different spaces mentally, so that some unhibited primeval nervous
system response manifests itself in the terrain, and there appears to be no
rehearsals. For within Horio's art he creates the impression that there is no second chance, to cover or avoid
those uncontrolled spillages of aesthetic praxis that's why his art works it’s
in your face.
Horio's spontaneity in creation does have a history in Japanese
Sumi-e if one has seen the artworks of Zen Circular painting, which I
experienced in a Gallery in Kyoto, with an equally interesting translated
lecture of how the artist would sit for a sustained period of time, then all of
sudden just create an amazing ink image on a scroll, very rapidly with a few
strokes. At times from my experience Horio creates a similar visual experience
to the audiences that follow his oeuvre.
These artworks by Horio on show at Artspace Niji are raw and one particularly enjoyed his dot
artworks, how lively they are as a body of work, with immediacy to each image that’s
exhibits an intelligent playful arbitrariness of where the paint submits to
gravity and runs downwards on the wooden panels, after it has been placed onto
the surface by an overloaded brush, its wonderful art
Link to Art Space Niji
http://www.art-space-niji.com/
