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Hiroshi Sugimoto: seascapes

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Water and air. So very commonplace are these substances, they hardly attract attentionand yet they vouchsafe our very existence. The beginnings of life are shrouded in myth: Let there water and air. Living phenomena spontaneously generated from water and air in the presence of light, though that could just as easily suggest random coincidence as a Deity. Let's just say that there happened to be a planet with water and air in our solar system, and moreover at precisely the right distance from the sun for the temperatures required to coax forth life. While hardly inconceivable that at least one such planet should exist in the vast reaches of universe, we search in vain for another similar example.

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Hiroshi Sugimoto

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This collection is an expanded edition of Hatje Cantz's 2005 volume. It is the first to feature works from all of Sugimoto's series to date: his portraits of wax figures, his seascapes, the long exposures of theaters which elevate the white, luminescent cinema screen and transform it into a magical image of an altar and the fascinating dioramas of scientific display cases. Additions to the original edition are two new groups of works, "Lightning Fields" (2006) and "Photogenic Drawings" (2007).

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Hiroshi Sugimoto : architecture of time

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Published on the occasion of the exhibitionat the Kunsthus Bregenz, this beautiful book includes new work, as well as installation views.

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Joe

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When renowned Hiroshi Sugimoto was invited to photograph the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, his attention immediately focused on an immense steel sculpture, Richard Serra's Joe, one of the artist's torqued spirals, which occupies a small courtyard of the museum. Joe allows viewers to walk in through a narrow passage between towering, sloping walls. The path leads to a surprising central space from which only the curving steel walls and the sky are visible. Sugimoto's pictures in this book capture the elliptical nature of Serra's piece. His images are complemented by the words of Jonathan Safran Foer, whose affecting prose poem-about an "average Joe" experiencing the circular passage of time-echoes, without directly referencing, Serra's sculpture. Designed by Takaaki Matsumoto, this large-format book features tritone reproductions printed on uncoated stock.

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Hiroshi Sugimoto: theaters, ed. française

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Fasciné par la question du temps et de la mémoire en photographie, Hiroshi Sugimoto cherche à exprimer sa propre vision du monde à travers l’œil d’un appareil photographique. C’est avec cette idée là qu’il a commencé la série Theaters en 1976, dans une salle de cinéma new yorkais, le Saint Marks, où le temps d’exposition de sa prise de vue correspondait à la durée du film soit 170 000 images réunies en une seule photographie. Il en résulte un halo blanc émanant de l’écran qui éclaire la salle : je me rendis compte que j’avais sous les yeux, extériorisée sur le négatif, mon exacte vision intérieure. Cette image n’existait pas dans la réalité, je ne l’avais pas vue non plus de mes yeux. Qui, alors, l’avait vue ? Je crois que c’était l’appareil photo lui-même. L’image rémanente d’une accumulation d’images rémanentes… (Hiroshi Sugimoto). Pendant quarante ans, Sugimoto multiplie les photographies de salles de cinéma et de drive-in à travers le monde en suivant ce même protocole évoquant ainsi un sentiment d’intemporalité. Un texte inédit de Hiroshi Sugimoto imprégné de philosophie, de l’histoire des civilisations anciennes et de spiritualité, nous éclaire sur sa démarche et son exploration conceptuelle du médium photographique.

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Sugimoto Versailles : surface de révolution

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Pour sa onzième édition d’art contemporain, le château de Versailles a invité l’artiste protéiforme Hiroshi Sugimoto à investir le domaine de Trianon où il a convié art, photographie, sculpture, architecture, vidéo et spectacle vivant. À cette occasion, il a réalisé près de 20 portraits en noir et blanc inédits, allant de Louis XIV à Dalí, de Marie-Antoinette à Lady Diana, à partir de leur statue de cire. Les statues ont pris vie grâce au travail photographique de l’artiste. Des textes d’Hiroshi Sugimoto nous dévoilent un peu plus le regard contemporain qu’il porte sur Versailles et sur ses œuvres. Une maison de thé en verre, imaginée par Sugimoto, trône au centre du bassin du Plat-fond. Les dessins d’architectures de la maison de thé et des photographies en couleurs des différentes performances qui y ont eu lieu viennent compléter cet ouvrage. En cette année « Japonismes 2018 : les âmes en résonances », Hiroshi Sugimoto illustre ainsi à Versailles qui les a souvent symbolisés, les liens culturels entre le Japon et la France.

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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Architecture

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In the 1930s the Russian avant-garde project was declared alien and harmful to the work of building socialism, and much of it ended up in storage. For many years thereafter, socialist realism was the established style in the country. Only in the second half of the 1950s did artists of the new generation get the chance to see works by the heroes of the avant-garde, igniting a new phase in the development of the original ideas of Malevich, Tatlin and El Lissitzky.

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Hiroshi Sugimoto: dioramas

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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Dioramas narrates a story of the cycle of life, death and rebirth, from prehistoric aquatic life to the propagation of reptile and animal life to Homo sapiens' destruction of the earth, circling back to its renewal, where flora and fauna flourish without man. Here Sugimoto writes his own history of the world, an artist's creation myth. Hiroshi Sugimoto was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, where he studied politics and sociology at Rikkyõ University, later retraining as an artist at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, CA. He currently lives in New York and Tokyo.

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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Gates of Paradise

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Hiroshi Sugimoto turns his lens on Italy's architectural masterworks to create a meditation on the potential of cultural exchange and the possibility of cultural fusion. In 1585, four Japanese youths appeared before Pope Gregory XIII, summoned to his court from the nascent Christian community in Japan to present themselves at the capital of their faith. Sugimoto follows in the boys' footsteps, capturing the architectural wonders of Rome, Florence, and Venice. Sugimoto's images present each chapel and theater as a marvel, imposing and dark. He contextualizes his photographs with Japanese works from the period and the decades that follow. These panels and objects attest to the impact of Western culture, specifically Jesuit Christianity, on Momoyama and Edo aesthetics as Japanese artists envisioned scenes of European life.

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Old is new: architectural works by New Material Laboratory

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The architectural practice of Hiroshi Sugimoto and Tomoyuki Sakakida is informed by a simple paradox: ''the oldest things are the newest.'' In 2008, Sugimoto and Sakakida founded New Material Research Laboratory with an aim to develop ''new'' materials for construction based upon much older materials and techniques. The NMRL reinvigorates material from ancient times and the Middle Ages by using it in the context of a distinctly contemporary design sensibility and thus creating a physical connection between the past and the present. This beautiful hardcover volume delves into the art and architecture as well as the archaeological philosophy of the Laboratory. Each project is characterized by the materials used in its construction and is illustrated with rich full-color photography. Sugimoto and Sakakida are the principal authors of the accompanying text, extrapolating on their design ethos and its roots in Japanese aesthetic tradition; supplemental reading provides further historical context. The book also includes an annotated index of materials and classic Japanese techniques with information drawn from the Laboratory’s research.