The oldest things are the newestthis paradoxical idea is present throughout the oeuvre of contemporary Japanese artist and photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. In 2008, Sugimoto and the architect Tomoyuki Sakakida founded the New Material Research Labor...
A rare opportunity to see unpublished works by Hiroshi Sugimoto reproduced at the highest standard
...in these unadorned seascapes, there are microworlds of energy evident only on closer inspection...As Edward Weston did with his abstract images of the American West, Sugimoto offers landscape photography that invites a fresh understanding of the genre.--Albert Mobilio "Bookforum "
Hiroshi Sugimoto has defined what it means to be a multi- disciplined contemporary artist, blurring the lines between photography, painting, installation, and architecture. Preserving and picturing memory and time is a central theme of Sugimotos photography, including the ongoing series Dioramas , Theaters , and Seascapes . His work is held in numerous public collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; The National Gallery, London; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Smithsonian Institute of Art, Washington, D.C., and Tate, London, among others.