Kishio Suga brings together a representative group of the artist’s sculptures, dating from the 1960s to the ’90s, that probe the slippages between seeing and knowing. Works culled from Dia’s holdings are complemented by key loans, together unsettling habitual expectations of materials’ behaviors, including concrete, machine oil, paraffin wax, metal, and stone that are set in serial, mutually upholding, and at times precarious arrangements. Inflected anew by the conditions of the site in which they are displayed, each of Suga’s sculptures stages a carefully framed incoherence.
In conjunction with the exhibition’s opening, Suga’s murder-mystery film, Being and Murder (1999), and video documentation of his performative “activations” will screen for the first time outside of Japan at Dia Chelsea, from July 9 to August 9.
Kishio Suga is curated by Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, curator and co–department head, with Min Sun Jeon, assistant curator.
Kishio Suga is made possible by major support from Kodama Foundation. Significant support provided by Hiroyuki Maki. Additional support by BLUM, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and New York; Japan Foundation, New York; Johyun Gallery; Mendes Wood DM; Tomio Koyama Gallery; and Tokyo Gallery+BTAP.
All exhibitions at Dia are made possible by the Economou Exhibition Fund.
Kishio Suga
Long-term view
Dia Beacon
Beacon, NY, USA
