Kishio Suga 1944
Born and works Japan


Ren-Shiki-Tai 1973, partly remade 1987
Stone, Brick, Cement and Wire


Suga balances and ties together planks, pedestals, bricks and cement blocks so that it is unclear what is supporting and what is supported. Like other members of the Japanese art movement Mono-ha (the school of things), he is acutely aware of the scale, texture and positioning of objects and their impact on the viewer. Here the objects from an enclosure with a slight opening, suggesting his interest in the categories 'interior' and 'exterior' and the boundary and interaction between them. For Suga, the 'interior' relates to the inner intellectual and emotional world of the viewer of objects.