Jingdezhen International Studio invited the Residency artist from The Shigaraki Ceramic Culture Park, Hiroyuki Yamada, he will present a lecture titled: "What’s the value " on Wednesday, May 8st, at Ceramic Art Avenue Flagship Store 2nd-floor lecture hall at 19:00. He would like to share the concept behind the daikon radish and his residency experience in the Shigaraki Ceramic Culture Park, Japan.
Pottery, an early interpretation of the "creative" process and tool-using behavior in human evolution, is a key feature that distinguishes humans from animals. It was also an "accidental" attempt of human at chemical budding.
The craft with the history of more than thousands years holds a high place in Hiroyuki Yamada's heart, and he reveres it in the process of creation.
For Mr. Yamada, the making of household vessels is like the direct communication of the body language with the clay material. It is exactly the process which ceramicists give clay an ideology.
"Human beings fear the land and depend on it. We are just exploring more possibilities in the process of groping"
The research on the material society born out of this land is also a topic that Mr. Yamada has been speaking out about through his creation.
He believed that the measure of material value would vary according to the purpose and place of its use, and he also sought to define it by changing the nature of the work.
Japan was hit by the devastating the 2011 earthquake of the Pacific coast of Tōhoku, which triggered a massive tsunami that devastated coastal areas off The country's northeast and led to leaks at The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Overnight, buildings and neighborhoods were swallowed up by the sea, and fields, residences and surrounding buildings in daily activities disappeared in an instant in the face of natural disasters.
Mr. Yamada's cognition and judgment of the value of life, along with the siege of the sea submerged daily, disappeared once.
There was a sense of helplessness and panic, and the functioning of society came to a standstill.
In the face of the natural forces, the collective belief in the absence of social unrest began to occur, human beings lost the concept of the value of life. Mr. Yamada is groping for the reconstruction of the value system and the awakening and revival of the humanistic spirit through his creation. He has injected the emotions of this process into the Daikon Radish series without any reservations.
In Daikon Radish series, the "radish" is a carrier that often appears in his works. In people's impression, radish is associated with the characteristics of daily, friendly and neutral.