Press Release
Perpendicular Line, Susumu Koshimizu Solo Exhibition
January 19 (tue) – February 27 (sat), 2021
Tokyo Gallery + BTAP | Tokyo
7F, 8-10-5, Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061
TEL: 03-3571-1808 / FAX: 03-3571-7689
Tokyo Gallery+BTAP is pleased to announce Perpendicular Line, an exhibition of works by Susumu
Koshimizu. This exhibition will also feature sculptures and a musical performance by composer
Madoka Mori.
Born in Uwajima, Ehime in 1944, Susumu Koshimizu studied sculpture at Tama Art University between
1966 and 1971. Koshimizu is currently based in Kyoto and Osaka. Active since the latter half of the1960s, Koshimizu invokes wood, stone, paper, earth, and metal in works that stress the relationshipbetween different media. From the early 70s, Koshimizu was a leading figure in the Mono-ha
movement, and has exhibited works at various Japanese and overseas exhibitions including the Venice
Biennale and the São Paulo Biennale. Included amongst the most significant exhibitions of Koshimizu’s
work are Susumu Koshimizu: Sculptor of Today, of a Culture (Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu and Museumof Art, Ehime, 1992) and gravity/mass/work (Kyoto University of the Arts Gallery and Kyoto Universityof the Arts hall, 2010), an exhibition to mark the end of Koshimizu’s long teaching career at Kyoto City
University of the Arts.
The title work in the latest exhibition, Perpendicular Line, dates from 1969 and comprises of a brass
weight suspended from a length of piano wire. Having witnessed the creation of Sekine Nobuo’s Phase—Mother Earth first hand, Koshimizu created Perpendicular Line the following year as an exercise inrevisiting the roots of his thoughts. In Perpendicular Line, the brass weight that endlessly points to asingle spot on the floor and the vertical line that extends from the ceiling and supports the weight areboth tangible representations of the origins of sculpture and the vertical axis. The exhibition will also
feature a 2015 work comprising a stone suspended from a wire.
Madoka Mori holds the distinction of being the youngest person to win the Ichiyanagi Toshi
Contemporary Prize for composition. The idea for January’s live performance came from Erasure, ajoint exhibition of Toshi Ichiyanagi and Takahiro Kondo, also held by Tokyo Gallery+BTAP. This latest
collaboration with Koshimizu, an experiment in composition and performance, focuses on thepropagation of sound along the horizontal axis, and will involve the running of piano wire around thegallery.
We hope this intersection of the vertical and horizontal axes will give birth to a new dialogue between
music and art.
*Madoka Mori’s live performance will take place on Saturday 16 January on an invitation-only basis.
From Tuesday, 19 January, a video of the performance will be displayed in the gallery, enabling visitors
to enjoy the works of Koshimizu with musical accompaniment.

Press inquiries: Kayo Suzuki
E-mail: kayo.suzuki@tokyo-gallery.com / website: www.tokyo-gallery.com

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7F, 8-10-5 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
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Perpendicular Line (1969),
Brass, piano wire, 8 x 8 cm (height variable)