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IDO YOSHIMOTO
イド・ヨシモトによる彫刻展の開催をご案内いたします。
カリフォルニア北部インヴァネス、穏やかな自然に囲まれたアーティストコミュニティで育ち、現在も同地を拠点に活動するヨシモト。幼い頃から森や木に親しみ、長年アーボリスト（樹木医）として活動した後、美術家としてのキャリアをスタートしました。彫刻芸術と機能性が共存する作品は、素材が持つ固有の歴史と物語との対話から始まります。主な素材となるのは、地元で採れた自然災害や腐朽によって倒れた古材や回収材。年輪や木目、傷は、その木が育ってきた土壌や環境の記録であり、作品のあり様を方向づけるインスピレーションなのです。木材に対する深い理解と洞察から生まれた作品は、自然との調和や共生、そこで暮らす生き物たちへの敬愛の念が表れています。
また、ヨシモトのバックボーンを通じて浮かび上がる時代を超えた日米のアーティストの連なりが、草月会館の石庭『天国』で開催することの大きな動機となりました。イサム・ノグチとの出会いから、北大路魯山人や金重陶陽の元での学びを経て、カリフォルニアを代表する作家となったJ.B.ブランク。「イド（井戸）」の名付け親である彼は、日系アメリカ人作家でヨシモトの実父であるリック・ヨシモト��ともにインヴァネスで創作を続けました。そして現在私たちがブランクの活動を振り返った時に、その眼差しや表現の根幹には日本古来の伝統とその実践から学んだ自然観や審美眼が息づいていたと感じることができます。
石の持つ美しさを生かしつつ、自身の意志を最小限に加えたイサム・ノグチ。 そのアプローチには、ヨシモトの表現にも通底する感性や創作姿勢が感じられます。 東洋と西洋、自然と人工、伝統と革新ーーヨシモトとノグチの創造的精神が時代を超えて呼応する空間を是非ご高覧ください。
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We are pleased to announce an exhibition of sculptures by Ido Yoshimoto.
Yoshimoto grew up and is based in Inverness, a serene natural environment and artist community in Northern California. As a young man familiar with his forested surroundings Ido worked as an arborist before embarking on a career as an artist. His artworks are created of locally sourced mature and salvaged wood, often felled by natural disasters or decline. Coexisting between form and function, Yoshimoto’s work begins with a dialogue that includes the story and history of each new material. The annual rings, grain, burned edge and scars are a record of the soil and environment in which the wood has grown and frequently serves as his inspiration.
The timeless linkage of Japanese and American artists that emerged through Yoshimoto’s background is a major factor in determining the venue for this exhibition taking place in the stone garden “Tengoku(Heaven)” at the Sogetsu Plaza. J.B. Blunk a leading Northern California artist met Isamu Noguchi in a Tokyo folk art shop, and their friendship continued throughout both their lifetimes. Blunk, during his time in Japan apprenticed under the famed potters Kitaoji Rosanjin and Toyo Kaneshige. The godfather of “Ido (well),” Blunk lived and worked in Inverness. Rick Yoshimoto, a Japanese American artist and Ido’ s father was Blunk’s longtime studio assistant and colleague. Looking back on Blunk’s oeuvre, we sense that his core expression was that of the natural world, an aesthetic that he learned from ancient Japanese traditions and practices. Ido Yoshimoto spent much of his early career in the inherited studio of J.B. Blunk, and like Blunk, Ido’s work reflects a harmony and symbiosis with nature as well as a respect and insight into the life forms encompassing his world.
Isamu Noguchi embedded his own Minimalist sensibility to the space, stone and art of Sogetsu, adding to its intrinsic beauty. The aesthetic sensibility and creative approach found in Yoshimoto’s artforms marry the East and West, nature and artifice, tradition and innovation of this place. Our hope is for each visitor to enjoy this space where the creative spirit of Yoshimoto and Noguchi meet.
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IDO YOSHIMOTO CURATOR'S CUBE 2025 1st at "TENGOKU" / SOGETSU PLAZA 4.8(tue)-4.11(fri) ー－－－－－－－－－ Address 7-2-21 Akasaka, Minato-Ku, Tokyo Hours 4.8-4.10 / 10:00→17:00 4.11 / 10:00-15:00 Contact [email protected]
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JINEN
JINEN is a traveling exhibition with new work from Dan John Anderson, Ido Yoshimoto, Kazunori Hamana, and Yu Kobayashi. The artists, two living and working in California, and two practicing in Japan, are drawn together here to explore the shared interests of their varying practices which are each inspired at a fundamental level by their own experiences of living with nature. In origin this project emerged organically between the four artists through shared inspirations that blossomed both in a moment and over time. The end product is a proposal in which the artists exhibit works in two very different yet iconic Californian landscapes: A-Z West in the Mojave Desert and Salmon Creek Farm in the coastal redwood forests. For the first iteration of this project the artists will install their works in and around the "A-Z Planar Pavilions" at A-Z West, an artwork and 80 acre compound by artist Andrea Zittel in the Mojave town of Joshua Tree. For the second iteration, the artists will install their works among the shaded depths of the Redwoods at Salmon Creek Farm, a former counterculture commune and now a queered commune-farm-homestead and land-based non profit by Fritz Haeg on the Mendocino coast.
Presented by Curator's Cube, JINEN will take place at A-Z West in Joshua Tree, CA from April 19-22nd, 2024 and then travel to Salmon Creek Farm in Albion, CA from May 3-5th, 2024.
Please reach out to [email protected] with inquiries and requests for private viewings which may reach outside of these posted exhibition dates.
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