堀尾貞治＆昭子／Horio Sadaharu & Akiko

堀尾貞治

堀尾貞治は、兵庫県神戸市生まれの現代美術家です。定年まで会社員として勤めながら、それ以外の時間を美術に注ぎ、生涯をかけて精力的に創作しました。

堀尾が「一生美術をやる」と決心したのは小学校の頃、美術教諭の喜岡徳光との出会いがきっかけでした。中学卒業後は、家計を支えるために三菱重工業神戸造船所に就職しますが、そのかたわら独学で作品の制作を開始します。1957年から芦屋市展に出品し始め、1965年には第15回具体美術展に初めて参加します。この頃、具体美術協会には若手とベテランにかかわらず多くの作家が加入して新風を吹きこんでいましたが、堀尾も1966年にその一人となりました。多作で知られる堀尾ですが、その作風や造形は多岐にわたり、特定の様式に収まりません。たとえば、様々な物体や画面に絵の具を一日一色塗り重ねた作品や、色とりどりの布を束ねて白い画面に貼りつけた絵などが代表作として挙げられます。具体美術協会の解散後は、パフォーマンスによる制作から書に至るまで、多様な手法やジャンルを横断しました。

1985年に掲げられて以降、堀尾の制作に貫かれた「あたりまえのこと」というコンセプトは、芸術と日常が分かちがたく結びついた彼の本質を、如実に表しています。

Sadaharu Horio was a contemporary artist born in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. While working as a company employee until retirement, he dedicated his non-working hours to art and actively created throughout his lifetime.

He made the decision to pursue art for his entire life when he was in elementary school, inspired by his encounter with art teacher Tokumitsu Yoshioka. After graduating from junior high school, he joined Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard to support his family, but he started creating artworks through self-study on the side. He began exhibiting in the Ashiya City Exhibition from 1957 and participated in the 15th Gutai Art Exhibition for the first time in 1965. During this time, the Gutai Art Association, a Japanese avant-garde artist group, experienced a surge in membership, welcoming numerous artists who infused new energy regardless of whether they were young or veterans. In 1966, he joined as one of the members. He known for his prolific output, has a diverse range of styles and forms that couldn’t be confined to a specific style. For example, his representative works include paintings where he layered paint of a different color on various objects or canvases every day, and paintings where colorful fabrics were bundled and attached to a white canvas. After the dissolution of the Gutai Art Association, he crossed various techniques and genres, ranging from performance-based creations to calligraphy.

Since 1985, the concept of “Atarimaenokoto (the ordinary things)” that has permeated his work vividly expressed his essence, where art and everyday life are inseparably connected.

堀尾昭子

堀尾昭子は、関西を中心に活躍する造形作家です。1968年に「具体美術協会」の会員となり、解散まで同グループに在籍していました。

1937年に徳島市に生まれた堀尾は、徳島大学医学部付属の高等看護学校で学んだ後、神戸で看護師として働きながら、独学で作品を制作するようになりました。木や鉄などの素材に透明感のあるアクリルや鏡を組み合わせ、自在に変形・解体させた作品を数多く手がけており、その幾何学的なフォルムと抑制のきいた色彩や質感は、静謐な佇まいを生み出しています。すっきりとして無駄のない造形は、年を経るごとに一層細やかに、丹念にそぎ落とされていきました。両手に収まるほど小さな一連の作品には、独自の詩的な世界観が結晶のごとく凝縮されており、そこから素材そのものの持つ美しさが立ちのぼってきます。また、それらは「無題」であるがゆえに、観る者の解釈に無限の可能性を与えます。

「線そのもの、色彩そのもの、素材でもって私の『世界を組む』こと」を目指した、堀尾ならではの作品世界と言えるでしょう。

Akiko Horiuchi is a prominent plastic artist from Kansai area. She became a member of the Gutai Art Association in 1968 and remained with the group until its dissolution.

Born in Tokushima City in 1937, Horio studied at the Advanced Nursing School attached to the Tokushima University School of Medicine, then worked as a nurse in Kobe and began to create art on her own. She combined materials such as wood and steel with transparent acrylic and mirrors, freely transforming and dismantling them to create numerous works whose geometric forms and restrained colors and textured create a serene appearance. The neat and lean form has been carefully trimmed down with even more detail over the years. In a series of works small enough to fit in both hands, a unique poetic worldview is condensed like crystals from which the beauty of the materials themselves emerges. They also offer unlimited possibilities for interpretation by the viewer because they are “untitled”.

The world of Horio’s work can be said to be her own, in which she aims to construct my world with the line itself, the color itself, and the materials.