Kishio Suga: Writings, Vol.2 (1980-1989) published this spring
The second of an ambitious three-volume anthology compiling the translated writings of Kishio Suga. Edited by Andrew Maerkle, Ashley Rawlings, and Sen Uesaki.
This volume collects Suga’s writings from the period 1980–89, when the Japanese art scene was transformed by a museum-building boom triggered by the country’s rise to unprecedented economic heights. Having challenged conventional definitions of art through his formulations of the “[thing]” and “being left” a decade prior, Suga shifts his focus in the 1980s toward working with the collective logic of the world. In particular, he embarks on a sustained investigation into the dynamics of “[periphery]surroundings” as the basis for an approach to artmaking in which subject and object are equalized and the marginal or unseen takes on as much significance as that which is centered or seen. Included here are the aphoristic fragments that Suga compiled for his retrospective monograph Kishio Suga, 1988–1968, short statements composed for exhibition catalogues, and long-form essays published in art journals and other magazines during the period, many of which appear in English for the first time.
Hardcover, 222 pages
Published by Skira Editore and BLUM Books
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