John Cage

“I think of the garden or the space for the fifteen stones as being four staves, or two pages - each page having two staves. And the staves are actually the area of the garden. Knowing the whole of it, I can find by chance operations where to put which stone.”

- John Cage

Uniting John Cage’s influential practice as a composer and visual artist, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris will present an installation devoted to his celebrated Ryoanji series from 1983-1992, inspired by the rock garden at Ryōan-ji (“Temple of the Peaceful Dragon”), a Zen Buddhist temple that Cage first visited in Kyoto, Japan in 1962. The exhibition presents a selection of his Ryoanji drawings alongside recordings of his Ryoanji compositions for various instruments, focusing on how Cage expressed his ideas and the garden’s sensibility in both his audio and visual interpretations.