Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Conceptual Forms beautifully depict delicately monumental “stereo metric exemplars.” The present lot, a German made model produced in the late-nineteenth or early-twentieth century, is a three dimensional rendering of a complex trigonometric function. With his detailed, descriptive title, Sugimoto embraces the identity of his subject rather than allowing it to disappear into pure abstraction. Just as the creation of the model transformed a nonmaterial mathematical equation into a concrete object, so too does Sugimoto, under his masterful lens, elevate the crafted educational model to the highest levels of fine art.