Realized by curator Mika Yoshitake in collaboration with the gallery, the sheer scope and commitment of the exhibition and the works themselves make a very strong case for this grouping of artists and their contemporary historical relevance. Almost every available space of Blum & Poe's large building has been given over to the survey; walking through them all, one can't help but admire how weirdly magical the bringing together of things can be.
The show's most powerful work is perhaps the simplest. Kishio Suga's five sculptures and interventions feel in their own way consuming, precarious and poetic. For instance, he filled in every step of Blum & Poe's back stairwell with wet sand, creating a smooth, sloping plane, a radical but gentle transformation of this normally ignored interstitial space achieved with an incredible economy of means. But his most affecting work consists of a single beam of Douglas fir stuck into the window frame. Before you mutter how stupid that sounds, take a glance at the list of its materials: "Douglas Fir, window, landscape." The stick is just an excuse, a simple trick that bends into the window in a weird way, which can, with a little time and patience, bring about that awareness of the world seen through the window, where you're standing, and maybe yourself. It doesn't ask you to change your religion, to believe in capitalism or socialism or Japan or America; it simply asks you to take some time, look a little deeper, be more aware.
2727 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034
Category: Art Galleries
Region: West L.A.
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Something Archimedes said seems so fitting here: "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."
They may be just things. But here is the lever — this sculpture, this show — and with you as the fulcrum, it might just be possible for such a simple thing to move the world.
REQUIEM FOR THE SUN: THE ART OF MONO-HA | Blum & Poe, 2727 S. La Cienega Blvd., Culver City | Through April 14
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