Naoki Sutter-Shudo

Void (空)

Name: Void (空) - Naoki Sutter-Shudo
Brand: Keijiban
Price: 285.000000 EUR
Availability: InStock

2024

Enamel on steel ALTOIDS ® box, magnet

6.1 × 9.6 x 2.8 cm

Edition of 15 copies numbered and signed by the artist on a certificate, plus 2 artist's proofs

Price

€285.00

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The edition

This edition is a détournement of a distinctive mint metal tin. In addition to being a regular consumer of these lozenges, the artist carefully preserves their boxes – just one more in a long line of collections he has built up over the years, as a sort of collector of collections. The void referred to here could therefore be associated with the feelings of the frenzied consumer or collector reflecting on their own compulsion and the elusive motives that drive them. Here, introspective materialism ironically meets Buddhism and its central notion of the void.

Lozenges and candies in general are recurrent elements in the artist’s work, as well as the box, which is regularly used as both material and motif. Its fetishistic appeal, its microcosmic dimension, as well as its multiple cultural references represent some of its aspects that spark Sutter-Sudo’s interest. Here it can also be seen as a more direct homage to the iconic tin can that inspired so many of the neo-avant-garde artists who have grappled with industrial and consumerist expansion. In this regard, Akasegawa Genpei’s piece Canned Universe (1964) stands out. By emptying out a crab tin, placing the outer label on the inside and re-sealing the tin, the Japanese artist suggested that we turn the universe inside out.

The artist

Naoki Sutter-Shudo was born in 1990 in Paris. He currently lives in Los Angeles.

Taking the form of sculptures or installations, photographs or paintings, Naoki Sutter-Shudo’s works combine materials and techniques with caustic sophistication. By their eccentric refinement, display of artifice, and incisive erudition, these pieces exude a form of decadent seduction reminiscent of J.-K. Huysmans and Georges Bataille in the literary sphere. They also reflect a certain fascination with the notion of the microcosm, the reduction of a universe to the dimensions of human hands, whereby technical mastery and rationality are pushed to the point of manifesting their inverse.

Born in France, educated in Japan, and now based in Los Angeles, the artist’s work reveals both the multiplicity of his cultural influences and a singular conception of language. The artist often revels in the very process of translation, the paradoxical materialization of signs, and a sense of the absurd inherent in the everyday experience of slippage of meaning.

His work is represented by Galerie Crèvecoeur (Paris), Derosia (New York) and XYZ Collective (Tokyo).

The exhibition