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Kishio Suga "Neither Things nor Sites"
Tomio Koyama Gallery Roppongi
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Kishio Suga
This will be Kisho Suga's 11th solo exhibition at the gallery, and especially since 2017, he has been actively holding solo exhibitions every year, presenting new works. This year, he will exhibit an installation and wall sculptures, all new works.
Kishio Suga (1944-) was a major member of the "Mono-ha" art movement of the late 1960s and 1970s. For more than 50 years since then, he has been active at the forefront of the art movement and has carved out a unique horizon in contemporary art with his essential world of works that express the diversity of existence of objects.
Suga's viewpoint that fundamentally reexamines the way we look at "things," which resonates with the Indian philosophy of "Emptiness," continues to give universality to his works, and his passion for deepening and creating art continues unabated.
As one of the leading artists of postwar Japanese art, he has already established an international reputation and has participated in more than 400 exhibitions in Japan and abroad. His works are in the collections of more than 40 museums in Japan and abroad, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Tate Modern, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, M+, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.
In his work, Suga collects and selects objects such as wood, stone, metal, and rope, and through a variety of modest approaches to the relationships among objects, spaces, and people, he draws out and reveals the depths of their diverse existences.
In the new work in this exhibition, "Watarienbashira," many small pieces of wood are dotted on a whiteboard. A long, thin blue square timber crosses over these two pieces of wood, and by selecting two different pieces of wood, the two pieces of wood cross each other at an angle in a complex manner, creating a mysterious scene that is unstable, yet beautiful.
In the new installation, many square pieces of white paper folded in two are placed on the entire floor at the back of the gallery space. Each of the papers folded in two is placed in the space, and the slight displacement of their position and the difference in the way they are folded affect each other as if they were releasing an invisible infinite rhythm and energy, creating a situation in which ordinary paper as we know it appears for the first time.
Kishio Suga (1944-) was a major member of the "Mono-ha" art movement of the late 1960s and 1970s. For more than 50 years since then, he has been active at the forefront of the art movement and has carved out a unique horizon in contemporary art with his essential world of works that express the diversity of existence of objects.
Suga's viewpoint that fundamentally reexamines the way we look at "things," which resonates with the Indian philosophy of "Emptiness," continues to give universality to his works, and his passion for deepening and creating art continues unabated.
As one of the leading artists of postwar Japanese art, he has already established an international reputation and has participated in more than 400 exhibitions in Japan and abroad. His works are in the collections of more than 40 museums in Japan and abroad, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Tate Modern, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, M+, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.
In his work, Suga collects and selects objects such as wood, stone, metal, and rope, and through a variety of modest approaches to the relationships among objects, spaces, and people, he draws out and reveals the depths of their diverse existences.
In the new work in this exhibition, "Watarienbashira," many small pieces of wood are dotted on a whiteboard. A long, thin blue square timber crosses over these two pieces of wood, and by selecting two different pieces of wood, the two pieces of wood cross each other at an angle in a complex manner, creating a mysterious scene that is unstable, yet beautiful.
In the new installation, many square pieces of white paper folded in two are placed on the entire floor at the back of the gallery space. Each of the papers folded in two is placed in the space, and the slight displacement of their position and the difference in the way they are folded affect each other as if they were releasing an invisible infinite rhythm and energy, creating a situation in which ordinary paper as we know it appears for the first time.
Schedule | Jun 24 (Sat) 2023-Jul 22 (Sat) 2023 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Jun 24 (Sat) 2023 17:00 - 19:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | http://tomiokoyamagallery.com/en/exhibitions/suga2023/ | ||||
| Venue | Tomio Koyama Gallery Roppongi http://www.tomiokoyamagallery.com/ | ||||
| Location | 2F Complex665, 6-5-24 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 | ||||
| Access | 2 minute walk from exit 1b at Roppongi Station on the Hbiya or Toei Oedo line, 8 minute walk from exit 7 at Azabu-juban Station on the Nanboku or Toei Oedo line, 11 minute walk from exit 5 at Nogizaka Station on the Chiyoda line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6434-7225 | ||||
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