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Hiroshi Sugimoto, Past and Present in Three Parts

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Hiroshi Sugimoto (born in Japan in 1948) is considered to be one of the most important living artists. His work consists in black-and-white photographs of formal perfection. All images are taken using a large-format camera. The exhibition brings together Sugimoto’s three best-known series—movie theaters, seascapes, and dioramas—distinct subjects but alike in their conception and execution. Each image is based on the repetition of a single static point of view.

Sugimoto’s work welcomes contemplation. At first glance, his photographs may seem simple to grasp, but the longer one looks the more complex they become, stimulating both vision and intellect. In the seascapes, photographed around the world, we can see only air and water separated by the line of horizon transecting the image. There is no hint of land and no human or animal presence. In these images of the sky and the sea—a visual experience we are well familiar with—the artist explores historical temporality. Going back thousands of years and extending thousands of years into the future, these seascapes are, according to the artist, an invitation to travel in time and share a timeless, eternal view with the ancients.

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