The Japanese artist Kishio Suga will get his first solo show at a US museum this autumn with a new commission from the Dia Art Foundation that resurrects one of his site-responsive works from the 1970s in the Dia:Chelsea space in New York (5 November 2016-30 July 2017). Suga will recreate Placement of Condition, made of a group of rectilinearly-cut stones leaning in different directions but linked by wire, which was first installed at Morioka City Hall in 1973 and remade once at the Hiroshima Museum of Art in 1997. Alexis Lowry, who organised the Dia:Chelsea show, says the work “[asks] us to reconsider the auratic presence of [everyday] materials”. It is also a fitting piece for Dia:Chelsea’s building, which was once a marble-cutting facility. Suga will determine the dimensions of the commission and the number of stones required when he visits the space to install it later this year.
