Artist: Kishio Suga
Publisher: HeHe
Language: Japanese
Size: 18.8 × 12.8 cm
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Kishio Suga is widely acclaimed worldwide as the central artist of the "Mono-ha" school, which emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s and brought about a major art movement in Japan.
Suga's works depict the relationships among things, places, and people, and the changes that occur through the simple act of arranging, assembling, and setting up everyday materials such as stone, wood, metal, rope, and water.
Alongside Suga's work, there is a notebook that forms the basis of his work, in which he has always organized and developed his thoughts, from the conception of an idea to the conception of a work, through writing.
This book contains pages selected by the artist himself from 20 notebooks written between 1967 and 2008. Some excerpts of the text have also been reproduced in print. The 704 pages of this book mark the starting point of the artist's work, as he continues to deeply confront and question the truths of this world.
Suga's works depict the relationships among things, places, and people, and the changes that occur through the simple act of arranging, assembling, and setting up everyday materials such as stone, wood, metal, rope, and water.
Alongside Suga's work, there is a notebook that forms the basis of his work, in which he has always organized and developed his thoughts, from the conception of an idea to the conception of a work, through writing.
This book contains pages selected by the artist himself from 20 notebooks written between 1967 and 2008. Some excerpts of the text have also been reproduced in print. The 704 pages of this book mark the starting point of the artist's work, as he continues to deeply confront and question the truths of this world.
Kishio Suga
Born in Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture in 1944. Since his first solo exhibition in 1968, he has participated in over 400 exhibitions in Japan and abroad. Recent major exhibitions include a solo show at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan (2016); a solo show at Dia: Chelsea, New York (2016); a two-person show with Carla Black at the National Museum of Modern Art, Scotland (2017); the 57th Venice Biennale International Exhibition "VIVA ARTE VIVA"; and the exhibition "Japanorama: New Japanese Art since 1970" at the Centre Pompidou-Metz. In Japan, his works were shown simultaneously at the Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo "Kishio Suga: Potentiality Placed" in 2015, and in 2021-2022, his solo exhibition "The Existence of 'Things' and the Eternity of 'Place'" at the Iwate Museum of Art in his hometown, which reviews his 50 years of activity, drew great attention. His works are in the collections of more than 40 museums in Japan and abroad, including the Centre 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.
Born in Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture in 1944. Since his first solo exhibition in 1968, he has participated in over 400 exhibitions in Japan and abroad. Recent major exhibitions include a solo show at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan (2016); a solo show at Dia: Chelsea, New York (2016); a two-person show with Carla Black at the National Museum of Modern Art, Scotland (2017); the 57th Venice Biennale International Exhibition "VIVA ARTE VIVA"; and the exhibition "Japanorama: New Japanese Art since 1970" at the Centre Pompidou-Metz. In Japan, his works were shown simultaneously at the Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo "Kishio Suga: Potentiality Placed" in 2015, and in 2021-2022, his solo exhibition "The Existence of 'Things' and the Eternity of 'Place'" at the Iwate Museum of Art in his hometown, which reviews his 50 years of activity, drew great attention. His works are in the collections of more than 40 museums in Japan and abroad, including the Centre 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.