Kishio Suga

Tate Modern displays Kishio Suga installation from its collection

Impermanence, Tate Modern (Room 2, Tanks), London
Until February 2, 2020

Kishio Suga’s In the State of Continuous Knowledge (Ren-shiki-tai), 1973/1987, is featured in Impermanence, an exhibition of works from the Tate Modern’s collection curated by Valentina Ravaglia. Focusing on artists who “challenge traditional ideas around the permanence of art by making works that exist for a limited time,” the exhibition includes works by Miroslaw Bałka, Roelof Louw, and Anya Gallaccio.

Suga first made Ren-shiki-tai (連識体) for the 8th Japan Art Festival Exhibition at the Tokyo Central Museum in 1973. Most of the materials were discarded at the close of the show, but Suga partially remade the work for Art in Japan since 1969: Mono-ha and Post-Mono-ha, which was held at at the Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, in 1987. The installation was acquired by the Tate in 2010.