Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Private Collection
Sotheby's, London, 14 October 2011, lot 43
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Madrid, Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación 'la Caixa'; Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém, Sugimoto, 29 May 1998 - January 24 1999, no. SUG-428 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 173)
London, Serpentine Gallery, Hiroshi Sugimoto, 18 November 2003 - 18 January 2004 (another example exhibited)
Tokyo, Mori Art Museum; Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Hiroshi Sugimoto, 17 September 2005 - 14 May 2006 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 137)
New York, Japan Society Gallery, Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History,23 September 2005 - 19 February 2006 (another example exhibited)
London, White Cube, Dark Matter, 7 July - 9 September 2006
Japanese • 1948
Hiroshi Sugimoto's work examines the concepts of time, space and the metaphysics of human existence through breathtakingly perfect images of theaters, mathematical forms, wax figures and seascapes. His 8 x 10 inch, large-format camera and long exposures give an almost eerie serenity to his images, treating the photograph as an ethereal time capsule and challenging its associations of the 'instant.'
In his famed Seascapes, Sugimoto sublimely captures the nature of water and air, sharpening and blurring the elements together into a seamless, formless entity. This reflection of the human condition and its relationship with time follows through his exploration of historical topics and timeless beauty as he uniquely replicates the world around us.
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