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.
As people change over the years, works also develop shifts and changes with age. The works offered at Untitled range from comparatively recent pieces of about twenty years to older works that have passed through nearly seventy years.
Small scratches, changes in the paint surface, shifts in paper or support—these are not mere deterioration but traces of the time the work has lived through.
We do not value only perfect condition. We hope you will receive each work as a single existence, together with the time it has accumulated.
Accessories
Whether a work is framed is noted on each work page. Frame condition varies by work; please contact us in advance if you would like details.
We also accept custom framing matched to the work. As each piece is made individually for the space and work, delivery takes approximately two months.
Framed works include a storage box. Depending on the work, a new box may be made after purchase, which may take several weeks.
