Susumu Shingu: Sculpting with Wind

Susumu Shingu: Sculpting with Wind

Ippodo Gallery is delighted to present the renowned kinetic-sculptor Susumu Shingu’s first solo exhibition in the United States. “Sculpting with Wind”will open October 20^th and run through December 29^th, 2022. Shingu’s large-scale public works are and have been continuously displayed around the world, including France (Margaux[1]; Chambord[2]. Paris[3]), Italy (Milan[4]), Japan (Osaka[5]; Tokyo[6]; Hyogo[7]), and the United States (Cambridge[8]; New York City[9]^{, [10]}).

The artist’s large-scale permanent outdoor sculptures serve as areminder of the constancy and immensity of the Earth’s natural forces – wind, water, light, and gravity – that affect our humanbodies/lives.The artist’s elegantly engineered sculptures are durable yet never the same, responding to diverse environments. Shingu’s kinetic sculptures oppose the perception that the world around us is eternal or static; they visually and mentally activate a viewer’s sense of their individual relationship to nature.  

Shingu’s wondrous churning objects explore how the environment shapes and creates behavior, and have made him a favorite of well-known architects, including Renzo Piano, Tadao Ando, and Enrique Norten. Ippodo Gallery will commemorate this exceptional showcase of drawings, interior sculptures, and colorful abstract paintings with an opening reception featuring the artist, who is visiting from Japan, on October 20th from 5-8 pm EST.  This special exhibition will also feature several large-scale exterior proposals. 

Shingu is trying to express not the moving sculpture itself, but the "invisible" energy of nature that moves it. What he is trying to convey is the affectionate message for human beings who should live with Mother Nature.

- Tadao Ando, 2020

The wind is invisible, yet Shingu makes it perceptible. Water is fleeting energy, and Shingu gives it shape.
- Renzo Piano

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