Each Modern is pleased to present for the first time in Taiwan, an exhibition of Japanese artist Hiraku Suzuki, "The Writing of Meteors". The exhibition will present new works on paper and canvas, installation, video and photographs to present the infinity of the artist's expansion from lines.
Before lines become the essentials of civilizations such as languages and arts, it is still the state of connection between points to points through physical movements - that is, not only two-dimensional but the state of motion of space and time - is the critical concept of Suzuki's oeuvre. Suzuki rediscovers lines from archaeology and space science as well as his interest on the fluidity between the visual and the textual, and then obtains the clues of form from the observation of the city scene. He integrates all into his unique method of drawing which conclusively pointing to modernism and futurism. Bacteria Sign, one of his famous early series from 2000, are canvases of soil. Suzuki buried the dead leaves and gradually excavated the "line drawing" activity of revealing the veins. Bacteria Sign resonates drawing, archaeology, life cycle, genesis of civilization, and other levels. Soil of the sedimentary ground rebounds into an innocent imagination of the universe, a metaphorical wonderful work.
Continuing the approach of traces of life, GENGA has been Suzuki's long-term project of depicting fragments of everyday shapes, collecting unknown marks, and finally sorting and archiving. The title GENGA refers to a word play between "GENGO" (language) and "GINGA" (galaxy), with "GENGA" also meaning primal or original pictures. The video GENGA #001 - #1000 (video) developed from GENGA further reverses images and jumps off physical forms, emphasizing the movement and beauty of lines with change of light itself. GENZO (photo) , another related to GENGA, was begun with Suzuki taking black paper and silver spray into a completely dark tunnel to draw blindly. The artist is not exploring to find a form, but reconstructing the photographic space by drawing - The title GENZO comes from the Japanese term for photographic development, but also means "phantom" and "original statue".
Suzuki's experimental depiction of lines finally merged into Constellation began in 2016. Tomoko Yabumae, Curator of The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, mentioned in her article: " It may follow logically that Suzuki's work now emphasises the concept of space. His most recent work shows what appear as galactic systems, laid out on huge surfaces. He defines his act of drawing as creating a tube between things, with the movement through it, bringing the notion of 'transport' to the fore. Accumulated lines discover orders through their mutual relationships, and all on their own determine their shapes and expanses of space."
For Suzuki, lines are more than depiction of feelings and opinions through the movements of the hands. The radical idea of his drawing is not limited to the possibility of a pen and paper, but the media, form, and meaning transcend another "premonition of some greater whole", that is, more striking and complex. The exhibition title The Writing of Meteors comes from French critic Roger Cailois' L'ecriture de Pierres - because for Suzuki, the symbols and lines that created by these minimalist materials connect the time and the space in the universe. Interpreting the changes and constants of the universe structure in both macro and micro - Suzuki is writing the universe.
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