Chair Refusing to be Sat on
Chair of Shigaraki-yaki Ware which Taro Okamoto presented at the age of 52.
I always get angry that so-called modern chairs coquettishly tempt us to have a seat. It invitingly looks like an indentation for buttocks, into which people can sink deeply and hide from the world. However, that should only be for the elderly or the sick.
We don’t need to sink into a chair all-day. It is just what we sit in temporarily during our active journey through life. That means they are weapons in our daily fight for a good life. In typical daily life, there is no playful spirit filling us with vitality. There is just the emptiness of modern life. I aimed to represent a remarkable sense of life and imagination beyond simple rationalism or functionalism. That’s why I created these pieces with faces on a par with humans mentally and physically, despite just being chairs. This is an expression of creativity & humor in daily life.
Taro Okamoto, Spell of Primary Colors, 1968
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