Hiroshi Sugimoto - Photographs London Friday, May 16, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Christie’s, New York, 18 May 2001, lot 554

  • Exhibited


    Motion Picture by Sugimoto, Galleria SPSAS Locarno, 5 August – 24 September, 1995, (there another example exhibited); Hiroshi Sugimoto, Tokyo, Mori Art Museum, 17 September, 2005 – 9 January 2006, (there another example exhibited) and Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.,16 February – 14 May 2006, (there another example exhibited)

  • Literature

    Skira Editore, Motion Picture by Sugimoto, exh. cat., Milano, 1995, n.p.; Hatje Cantz, Hiroshi Sugimoto, exh. cat., 2005, p. 96

  • 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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254

Winnetika Drive-In, Paramount

1993
Gelatin silver print.
42.2 x 54.3 cm (16 5/8 x 21 3/8 in).
Signed, titled, dated and numbered 3/25 710 in pencil on the mount. Titled and numbered 3/25 710 with blindstamp in the margin.

Estimate
£8,000 - 10,000 

Sold for £14,900

Photographs

17 May 2008, 5pm
London