Project
”Hiraku Suzuki: Excavation Today“ @The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
Artist
September 16 (Sat) -December 19 (Tue) , 2023
Focusing on the interconnection between drawing and writing or picture and language, Hiraku Suzuki's practice encompasses a large variety of media, including two-dimensional works, installations, murals, video, performance, and sculpture. His art explores the potentiality of drawing in an expanded notion through the act of excavating the lines in time and space. The largest-ever solo exhibition of his work will be held at the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma as a present position of his work. We invite you to view this exhibition with newly created installation as a innovated starting point for artist, having his activities both in Japan and abroad.
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Date | September 16 (Sat) -December 19 (Tue) , 2023 |
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Hours | 9h30 -17h (admission through 16h30) |
closed | Monday open on 9/18, 10/9, 11/27, 12/11, 12/18 9/19(Tue)、10/10(Tue),11/13(Mon)-23(Thu),12/4(Mon)-8(Fri)、12/14(Thu) |
This exhibition, largest solo exhibition to date will feature a major-scale installation of 40 works from his latest series, ”The Writing of Meteors" (2023), as well as a selection of his recent series, "Constellation" (2018-2021) and "Interexcavation" (2019), and murals to be produced on-site for this exhibition.
The exhibition venue is the museum's contemporary art building (completed in 1997) designed by Arata Isozaki (1931-2022), an architect who sadly passed away at the end of last year. Isozaki conceived of the building as a cavity through which works of art would pass. As if to echo this idea, Suzuki has been traveling from exhibition room to exhibition room in search of the origins and future of drawing and writing.
Suzuki's work is a series of lines from the exhibition room to the gallery, from the cave where the oldest wall paintings of mankind were left behind to outer space, where creation and annihilation are repeated beyond human knowledge. Suzuki Hiraku finds the line every day as an excavation, a moment when the past and the present intersect, and through the act of drawing and writing, he expands the concept of drawing and creates a new work of art.
He continues to expand the concept of drawing and renew the possibilities of expression in the modern age. Please come and experience the installation.
Wandering in “Drawing Tube” (installation view of the exhibition)
Photos as below are by Ooki Jingu © Hiraku Suzuki Studio
First, visitors are greeted by a wall painting created especially for this exhibition. Based on the artist's impressions of the Iwajuku site, which dates back to the Paleolithic Era, the silver ink drawing, with its silver lines intersecting with two pieces of lava stones, plays a prelude to tens of thousands of years into the future, just like an ancient mural painting.
Participants of Workshop initiated by Hiraku Suzuki at Toride Canvas of Tokyo University of the Arts “The Marker of Nature” 2023 tree branched, silver ink on paper
Even though the mediums are diverse, each work gives the strong impression of being organically connected as part of a single drawing created by Suzuki. We invite you to experience the message at the exhibition site.