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Jun 29 – Sep 7, 2025
Midorigaoka Art Museum Annex
Jul 12 – Aug 24, 2025
MIHO MUSEUM
Jul 12 – Sep 28, 2025
Bizen City Museum of Art
Ishikawa
Jul 12 – Oct 19, 2025
Notojima Glass Art Museum
Hiroshi Taruta is a Seto-based artist who has been passionately practicing an openwork technique known as hotaru-de to create his own unique seihakuji (blue-white glaze) porcelain. While hotaru-de is usually done in a circular pattern, Hiroshi insists on expressing his work with lines and continues to refine his technique.
The stripes running over the soft shape are cut wide to let in as much light as possible. The manual technique required to cut delicately and boldly without damaging the thin porcelain surface truly shows his mastery. The clear light that shines through the transparent glaze covering the gaps radiates a beauty that naturally brings a smile to the face of any who holds this work in their hands.
As if guided by the light that spreads through gaps in the clouds, he walks the path of creativity with devotion. What he wants to express with his hands may be beautiful light.