※英語の後に日本語が続きます

Saturday, March 19, 2022 ‒ Sunday, April 17, 2022

Born in Tokyo in 1984, Yusuke Suga majored in sculpture at Tokyo University of the Arts, and produces mainly three-dimensional works using various materials, including computer graphics and photographs. He has continued to show his art both inside and outside Japan. Thus far, his focus has been on placing mutually conflicting elements in the same work, making impact and violence visible, and presenting states that would ordinarily be impossible, in three dimensions. These attributes may be exemplified by his statue of Perseus triumphantly holding his own detached head aloft, prosthetic legs for racehorses, which cannot escape death if they injure their legs, and brightly shining Stealth aircraft. With these and other works, he has cleverly made conditions that preserve both order and chaos appear before our eyes.

Although he has continued to create many three-dimensional works, Suga has also asserted that the fundamental identity of his production does not lie in sculpture. Upon repeated discussion on the question of why he continues to make art, he arrived at a formative experience that could be said to have occasioned his artistic production.

This experience occurred when Suga was four years old. While it may not seem very dramatic to someone else, it was a big development that turned the whole world upside-down as far as he was concerned. The surprise and fear brought by a total change in an everyday life he had believed in and never doubted. The odd feeling accompanying the realization that there definitely also exists a world which was not recognized. Suga says that he continues to make art because he wants to get that feeling once more. Along with a text by the artist, this exhibition will show a new group of works related to the formative experience that sparked his production.

We are looking forward to seeing you at "Eyes for Wide Shut" the solo exhibition by Yusuke Suga at LEESAYA.

須賀悠介
瞳孔がひらいている

2022年03月19日（土） － 04月17日（日）

須賀悠介（すが・ゆうすけ）は1984年東京都に生まれ、東京藝術大学の彫刻科を専攻し立体作品を主にCGや写真など様々な素材を用いて作品制作をし、国内外での発表を続けてきました。須賀は今まで作品の中に相反する要素を並存させたり、衝撃や暴力性の可視化、通常ではあり得ない事物の状態を立体化することに注力してきました。自身の首を狩り天高く掲げるペルセウス像や、足を怪我すると死を免れない競走馬のための義足、煌々と輝くステルス機など、秩序と混沌が保たれた状態を巧みに立ち現わせてきました。

数多くの立体作品を制作し続けてきた須賀ですが、一方で「彫刻」というものに対して根本的に作品制作のアイデンティティはないと話してきました。「なぜ、須賀は制作をし続けるのか？」ディスカッションを重ね、作品制作のきっかけとも言える原体験に辿り着くことができました。

4歳の頃に作家に起きたその体験は、たとえ他人からすればドラマティックなことではなかったとしても、須賀にとって世界がひっくり返る大きな出来事でした。信じて疑わなかった日常が、一変する驚きと恐怖。認められざる世界も確かに存在する可笑しさ。あの感覚をもう一度味わいたいから制作を続けていると須賀は言います。本展では作家のテキストと共に、制作のきっかけとなった原体験にまつわる新作群を発表いたします。
　
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