Private Collection, Japan
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Sugimoto, Sonnabend Gallery, New York; Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo; Zeito Photo Salon, Tokyo, 11 June – 22 October 1988
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., 17 September 2005 – 14 May 2006
Energy: The Power of Art, Nassau County Museum of Art, New York, 20 July 2019 – 3 November 2020
Damiani and Matsumoto Editions, Hiroshi Sugimoto: Theaters, pp. 22, 172
Sonnabend Gallery, Sugimoto, n.p.
Sonnabend Sundell Editions, THEATERS HIROSHI SUGIMOTO, pp. 38-39, 222
Mori Art Museum and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Hiroshi Sugimoto, p. 91, 359 (this print)
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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