Hiroshi Sugimoto - Contemporary Art Day Sale New York Tuesday, November 12, 2013 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Sonnabend Gallery, New York

  • Exhibited

    Tokyo, Mori Art Museum, Hiroshi Sugimoto, September 17, 2005 – January 9, 2006, then traveled to Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, (February 16– May 14, 2006) (another example exhibited)

  • Literature

    K. Brougher and P. Müller-Tamm, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Mori Art Museum and Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2005, pp. 281 and 392 (illustrated)

  • Artist Biography

    Hiroshi Sugimoto

    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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Mathematical Form: Surface 0004 (Onduloid: a surface of revolution with constant non-zero mean curvature) from the series Conceptual Forms

2004
gelatin silver print
image 58 3/4 x 47 in. (149.2 x 119.4 cm.)
frame 71 3/4 x 60 in. (182.2 x 152.4 cm.)

Signed "Sugimoto" on a label affixed to the reverse. This work is number 3 from an edition of 5.

Estimate
$60,000 - 80,000 

Sold for $87,500

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Contemporary Art Day Sale

New York 12 November 2013 11AM