Studio Guenzani, Milan
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Tokyo, Mori Art Museum; Washington, D.C., Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; San Francisco, De Young Museum; Dusseldorf, K 20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen; Salzburg, Museum der Moderne; Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Kunstmuseum Luzern, Hiroshi Sugimoto, 17 September 2005 - 25 January 2009, pp. 63, 374 (another example illustrated and exhibited, p. 63)
Atskuko Koyanagi, Photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto: dioramas, theaters, seascapes, Japan, 1988, n.p. (another example illustrated)
Takaaki Matsumoto, ed., Hiroshi Sugimoto Dioramas, Italy, 2014, pp. 68, 117 (another example illustrated, p. 68)
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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