{"product_id":"kishio-suga-writings-volume-ii-1980-1989","title":"Kishio Suga. Writings. Volume II: 1980-1989","description":"One of the key figures in Japan’s pivotal Mono-ha phenomenon of the late 1960s and early 1970s, artist Kishio Suga has realized a visionary practice of ephemeral, sitespecific installations and performative interventions into the everyday environment.\nThroughout Suga’s career, writing has been an important element in his artistic process, as he uses his texts to interrogate the institution of art and anthropocentric conceptions of the world.\n\nThis volume collects Suga’s writings from the period 1980–89, when the Japanese art\nscene 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.\nIn particular, he embarks on a sustained investigation into the dynamics of “[periphery]\nsurroundings” 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.\n\nIncluded 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.","brand":"Skira Arte","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49983551701334,"sku":"","price":35.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0833\/6644\/5398\/files\/KishioSugaWritingsII.webp?v=1741189515","url":"https:\/\/skira-arte.myshopify.com\/products\/kishio-suga-writings-volume-ii-1980-1989","provider":"Skira Arte","version":"1.0","type":"link"}