GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku is pleased to represent the first solo exhibition of Hisao Suzuki at the gallery titled Shape-type Distance. The show will be composed of his latest six small sculptures and two large sculptures titled Shape-type Distance. The figures of two large works are human, but they cannot stand by themselves. By creating “a special sing of sculptures” that is different from the sings of paintings, architectures and any other objects, Suzuki aims to make a new world in this exhibition.

In the beginning of his career, Suzuki was interested in the process of stone sculpture such as curving. The way seemed to be the high souled and no hesitation for the artist. Showing his works in the opened space, he had learned the basic skills of sculptures: how to handle the space and constructive method of sculptures. The experience built his panoramic view of modernism and was his undercurrent for the producing the works by the repetition of confirm and deny the view.

Suzuki started to use the forging iron and stainless steel when he had the first exhibition at a gallery in 1987. In the wake of the exhibition at the inside, his approach to the works has changed. He used to focus on creating works with the strong assertiveness for the vast opened spaces, but he put more effort into improving the qualities of the works and spent more time to face the works. As a result, it is more important for the artist to consider the figures of the sculptures than to give any messages or concepts of them. According to Suzuki, he has explored “how the size and distance of objects perceived in art expression.”

Hisao Suzuki was born in 1946, Shizuoka. Suzuki graduated from Musashino Art University in 1970 and has worked as a professor at the university since 1984.  He has joined Yugoslavian International Symposium in 1971, showed at Milan Company Gallery in Italy, Hakone Open-Air Museum in Kanagawa and many other museums in Japan.  

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© Hisao Suzuki
courtesy of the artist