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kishio suga
kishio suga (菅 木志雄, suga kishio) (born 1944), is a japanese sculptor and installation artist currently living in itō, shizuoka, japan. he is one of the key members of mono-ha, a group of artists who became prominent in the late 1960s and 1970s. the mono-ha artists explored the encounter between natural and industrial materials, such as stone, steel plates, glass, light bulbs, cotton, sponge, paper, wood, wire, rope, leather, oil, and water, arranging them in mostly unaltered, ephemeral states. the works focus as much on the interdependency of these various elements and the surrounding space a…
The Subject Atlas
A chart of kishio suga's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Spokes — Subject
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Rings — Career Period
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Threads — Shared Context
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
