Kentaro Kawabata / Bruce Nauman

On May 30, 2024 Nonaka-Hill will open a two-person exhibition of Kentaro Kawabata, a remarkable Japanese porcelain sculptor, alongside Bruce Nauman, often cited as the most influential American artist of his generation. 

The pairing is prompted by Kawabata's 2022 visit to La Biennale di Venezia: The Milk of Dreams, when he also encountered Bruce Nauman: Contrapposto Studies at Pinault Collection’s Punta della Dogana. The epiphanies found therein of parallel experimental and visceral concepts manifest by both artists, generations apart, have inspired this exhibition.