Hiroko IGETA Exhibition:
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Toki-no-Wasuremono presents a special exhibition of the works of artist Hiroko Igeta. Centered on the new “Portrait of Kazuyo Morita Standing on One Leg,” the exhibition also highlights Igeta’s ceramic figures.
● Event Information: Gallery Talk with Kazuyo Morita (in Japanese)
Date: September 26 (Sat)
Time: 5:00pm
Entrance fee 1000 Yen, RSVP required.
Please mail us with subject line “Gallery Talk,” your full name and contact address.
"Kazuyo Morita, who is active as an actress and contemporary dancer, was born with multiple disabilities. I initially met her when she was looking for someone to create a likeness of her body. I realized that this body of hers, which many have said would not be able to live for long, in fact possesses a delicate gorgeousness and a sharpened strength." (Hiroko Igeta)
Hiroko Igeta, born 1967, creates ball-jointed dolls since the early 1990s themed on aspects of the human body in its three-dimensional appearance. For the last ten years, Igeta used a technique of paulownia sawdust paste mixed with starch to create portrait dolls based on the likeness of living people.
With her portrait dolls of three dancers – “Demon in Mt. Masukata,” based on Daisuke Yoshimoto (2007); “Kei Doll,” based on Kei Ishikawa (2010); and “Accelerating us,” based on Ritsuko Takahashi (2012) – Igeta’s transformed interpretations seem to play on the constraints of the free movement of the body that these artists impose on themselves to achieve expression on stage. Making dolls in paulownia sawdust requires multiple months, sometimes even more than a year, during which time Igeta shares the world of the model. The idea of time thus is molded into the respective dolls.
Kazuyo Morita, the model for “Portrait of Kazuyo Morita Standing on One Leg,” was born 1977 with spina bifida disorder, scoliosis, and a hereditary birth defect. Relying on an artificial leg, she has become an actress and dancer.
Igeta’s work started from her model’s wish to see herself portrayed in three dimensions. The artist chose to approach her task in a direct and frontal manner, to render Morita’s particular physical appearance in accordance with her upfront personal character. The whole process involved many trial and errors. While many of her works bear close resemblance to her models, Igeta’s dolls have always been more than just faithful renderings of their outward shapes. This time as well, she placed emphasis on responding to aspects of Morita’s personality. Confronting the resulting work provides the impetus to question how the viewer sees the body and its capacities.
(Hiroaki Kyotani, poet & critic)
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■ Hiroko IGETA
Born 1967 in Tokyo, Hiroko Igeta has been making ball-jointed dolls since 1986. She graduated from the Visual Communication Design course at Musashino Art University in 1990. In 1994, she turned her focus towards exhibition activities while at the same time working in a design company. Since 2004, she fully concentrates on her artistic career and her work as a freelance illustrator. Her dolls portray real people through the eyes of the artist, and they encapsulate their models’ history within their shapes.
Hiroko IGETA Exhibition:
List of works / September 15 (Tue) - September 27 (Sat)
No. |
Image |
Title | Date |
Medium | Measurement |
Sign |
1 |
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"Portrait of Kazuyo Morita Standing on One Leg" | 2015 |
Paulownia sawdust paste, oil colors | H100cm (H140cm with pedestal) |
Signed on the back of the head part |
2 |
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"Torso (1)" | 2014 |
Ceramic | 10.5x19xh14cm |
Signed on the back |
3 |
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"Torso (2)" | 2014 |
Ceramic | 21x11xh11cm |
Signed on the back |
4 |
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"Torso (3)" | 2014 |
Ceramic | 9.5x11xh22cm |
Signed inside the leg |
5 |
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"Portrait of Kazuyo Morita" | 2014 |
Paulownia sawdust paste, oil colors | 40x30xh48cm (H77cm with pedestal) |
Signed on the back of the foot |
6 |
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"Untitled A" | 2014 |
Ceramic | 34x25xh19cm |
Signed on the upper part of the torso |
7 |
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"Dancing under delusion" | 2015 |
Ceramic | 26x15xh18cm |
Signed on the back |
8 |
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"Hankoko (Spirit Appearing in the Fume of Incense" | 2015 |
Ceramic | 20x10xh16cm |
Signed on the back |
9 |
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"Resonance" | 2015 |
Ceramic | 20x13xh10cm |
Signed on the back |
10 |
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"Uzumibi (Banked Fire)" | 2015 |
Ceramic | 19.5x12.5xh10.5cm |
Signed on the back |
11 |
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"Question Mark" | 2015 |
Ceramic | 24x16xh14.5cm |
Signed on the back |
12 |
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"Last Flower" | 2015 |
Ceramic | 25.5x12.5xh10cm |
Signed on the back |
13 |
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"Can't it be Stopped by Anyone?" | 2015 |
Ceramic | 19x9xh17cm |
Signed on the back |
14 |
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"Hypnos 34" | 2015 |
Ceramic | 12x8xh14.5cm |
Signed on the back |
15 |
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"Hibiscus" | 2015 |
Ceramic | 13x10xh16cm |
Signed on the back |
16 |
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"Independent" | 2015 |
Ceramic | 16x8xh11cm |
Signed on the back |
17 |
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"Control" | 2015 |
Ceramic | 8.5x15x12.5cm |
Signed on the back |
18 |
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"Invisible Reality" | 2015 |
Ceramic | 14x11xh12.5cm |
Signed on the back |
19 |
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"Before Being Born" | 2015 |
Ceramic | 14x8.5xh7cm |
Signed on the back |
20 |
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"Vaporization (3)" | 2015 |
Ceramic | 11x7xh9.5cm |
Signed on the back |
21 |
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"Time of the Peach Blossom Spring" | 2015 |
Ceramic | 14x7xh7cm |
Signed on the back |
22 |
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"Vaporization (1)" | 2014 |
Ceramic | 8x7.5xh8cm |
Signed on the back |
23 |
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"Vaporization (2)" | 2014 |
Ceramic | 13x8xh8cm |
Signed on the back |
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