Flower | Non-Flower : Suda Yoshihiro

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2017.09.2 - 2017.12.17 ｜ 3F, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art

Introduction

Flower / Non-Flower is the 2017 end-of-year exhibition presented by Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art. It is Suda Yoshihiro's first solo exhibition in Taiwan. The exhibition title is inspired by a Sanskrit negating prefix "अ," which converts words into negative forms when added. Flower / Non-Flower unfolds a dialectic relationship between the positive and the negative. It illustrates the concept that although Suda's works appear to be living flowers, they are wood sculptures in floral forms contextualized in an environment created by the artist and need to be fully experienced in-situ.

Artists' Profile

Suda Yoshihiro

Yoshihiro SUDA (b. 1969) was born in Yamanashi Prefecture at the foot of Mount Fuji, Japan. In 1992, he received his BFA in Graphic Design from Tama Art University, Tokyo. He now lives and works in Tokyo. In early 1990, Suda became interested in wooden plant sculptures. His work is influenced by Japanese traditional craft of carving, which has not only sharpened his sensitivity to details, but also brought his attention to the symbiotic relationship between Buddhist sculptures and the temple space. He believes that making lifelike sculptural objects is not the ultimate objective of art making; instead, these sculptural objects need to be placed at suitable spots to be considered complete. Be it weed or single-stem flowers, Suda has always picked unexpected sites to install his works, such as by a window or in a wall crevice, through which he contemplates on how they might be “unnoticed” in the eye of the spectator.

In 1993, Suda presented his first solo exhibition, Ginza Weed Theory, in a rental truck parked on a street in Ginza, Tokyo. Since then, his work has garnered much recognition that brought him to hold exhibitions in Japan and abroad. His works have been showcased at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Kyoto Art Center (Kyoto Biennale), etc. His works have also been extensively included in art collections worldwide, including 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Japan); the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Japan); Leeum (Seoul, Korea); Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia); National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa); The New Art Gallery Walsall (UK); Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico), etc.

In recent years, he has presented solo exhibitions at Galería Elvira González (Madrid, Spain, 2017); Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art (Nantou, Taiwan, 2017); 107 S-chanf (S-chanf, Switzerland, 2016); Galerie René Blouin (Montreal, Canada, 2016); Galerie Loock (Berlin, Germany, 2015); the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias (Colombia, 2014); Muzeum Sztuki i Techniki Japońskiej Manggha (Kraków, Poland, 2011); D'Amelio Terras Gallery (New York, 2009); Honolulu Museum of Art (Hawaii, USA, 2009); Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Galeria Leme (São Paulo, Brazil, 2008); Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France, 2004), etc.