On Thursday, August 15, 2013 Takashi Hinoda’s conference was held at the Contemporary Arts Museum of Puerto Rico. Director of the Art Museum at Caribbean University, Prof. Hiromi Shiba, accompanied Takashi in the conference, translating all he spoke about his influences, from professors, family, and television, that helped him develop into a unique artist.

Takashi was born in Kobe, Japan in the year 1968. According to Hinoda, Japan’s economy was growing, surrounding the young soon-to-be artist in an improving society. Nevertheless, it’s quite interesting that he decided to become an artist since none of his family members practiced art. During his youth, Hinoda would enjoy drawing and then in college he decided to study ceramic art. Nowadays, Takashi is a university professor as well as a plastic artist. He has worked with other artists such as Takashi Murakami in their 2006 exposition, “Takashi + 2: East meets East, Takashi Murakami and Takashi Hinoda” in Santa Fé, New Mexico at the Casa Nova Gallery.

Hinoda’s works are mostly influenced by manga, anime, and overall Japanese culture. The professors he looked up to when attending college were artists with innovative ideas, hence the reason behind the rare and unique form of his artworks. In the beginning of his career, Hinoda was able to enter and win awards in ceramic competitions, which allowed him to believe in his own potential after the lack of attention that his first exhibition gathered. After many attempts of submitting the artworks to sponsored exhibitions, Takashi decided to stop since, in the artist’s words, “they tend to reject overly creative and eccentric works”. Hinoda was determined to not change his way for others and establish the values of his own artwork for himself, for he was tired of the adversity that came by doing the contrary of these decisions.

In 1995, Japan went through two historic incidents that affected its society. In the conference, Takashi explained how these events affected his perception and through this, his artworks. The first was an earthquake that allowed him to understand the ephemeral way of things and the second was a gas attack in the subways. Suddenly, his works became centered on natural objects creating organic forms, now with different tones of colors. In the beginning, Takashi’s artworks would have a reddish-brown color in representation of human blood cells.

True artists contemplate and study everything there is to know about art. Many contemporary artists decide to not follow a single form of art, but instead they find possible ways of incorporating everything they wish in order to create something new. As an artist, one must break down their ideas in order to keep evolving and creating. Takashi Hinoda never allowed rejection to belittle his artworks. The moment he felt his incentive as a unique artist, there was nothing that would be able to make him do anything other than evolve.

 

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