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Kishio Suga is one of the most important figures of the Japanese contemporary art scene. After studying painting at the Tama Art University, from 1968 he began working with elements drawn from reality, organic or artificial. Through their manipulation, he sought to express the fundamental nature of the world around him and to make visible the relationships between that world and the individual.
The works he developed then were not qualified as installations just yet, but sought nonetheless to move beyond both painting and sculpture. They existed in an unidentified zone of practice and theory, allowing Suga to approach matter outside the constraints imposed by the anthropocentric philosophy inherited from Western thought.
Suga’s practice investigates the intrinsic possibilities of matter once it is no longer regarded as inert or passive, but as an interlocutor – if not a subject in its own right. His artistic investigation, alongside that of artists such as Nobuo Sekine, Lee Ufan, Susumu…
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Kishio Suga is one of the most important figures of the Japanese contemporary art scene. After studying painting at the Tama Art University, from 1968 he began working with elements drawn from reality, organic or artificial. Through their manipulation, he sought to express the fundamental nature of the world around him and to make visible the relationships between that world and the individual.
The works he developed then were not qualified as installations just yet, but sought nonetheless to move beyond both painting and sculpture. They existed in an unidentified zone of practice and theory, allowing Suga to approach matter outside the constraints imposed by the anthropocentric philosophy inherited from Western thought.
Suga’s practice investigates the intrinsic possibilities of matter once it is no longer regarded as inert or passive, but as an interlocutor – if not a subject in its own right. His artistic investigation, alongside that of artists such as Nobuo Sekine, Lee Ufan, Susumu…
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