Naoki Sutter-Shudo’s third exhibition at Crèvecœur presents a brand new collection of standing sculptures. His first solo present on the gallery in Paris since 2020, it follows current exhibitions at Gaga & Reena Spaulings, Los Angeles, and Derosia, New York. He has additionally participated in a residency on the Fondation Vincent Van Gogh in Arles, and proven work at Keijiban in Kanazawa and La Salle de Bains in Lyon.
His newest works emerge from an intuitive strategy of studio play—composing with varieties, blocks, paint, motifs, and indicators. From these open-ended beginnings come sculptures in enamelled wooden and metallic that regularly tackle the texture of symbols or silhouettes—figures that stand, lean, or recline with quiet cost. Articulated in construction and graphic in presence, these varieties communicate in a visible language that’s uniquely his personal. This grammar extends into his work, the place gestural layers of brushwork merge with calligraphic let- terforms. Throughout media, Naoki Sutter-Shudo constructs a vocabulary that provides form to the ineffable—a cloth grammar for contradictions and what escapes which means.
Or, within the phrases of Sabrina Tarasoff: “Name it ‘the Naoki elegant’: a laissez-faire romanticism preoccupied with what’s hid, and unsure, and possibly somewhat stoned—which is to say, in awe of (or beneath the affect of) sights, or topics, which are fully about appearances, miens, and impressions.”
at Crèvecœur, Paris
till July 26, 2025
