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HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
KUNSTWERKE
Hiroshi Sugimoto | Internationally acclaimed contemporary artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto, has continued to surprise the world with his discoveries of hidden beauty through the camera lens, presenting them through meticulous compositions on photographic paper. This film, which follows Sugimoto for 200 days as he travels around the globe creating artwork in various locations, reveals his inner journey driven by everlasting curiosity | YouTube
VIDEO / FILM
Hiroshi Sugimoto | The Infinite and the Immeasurable | Christie’s |
https://www.christies.com/ | The Japanese photographer’s work spans decades and, rather than seeking to capture the magic of the decisive moment, aims to evoke ‘the infinite and the immeasurable’. We visit the artist in Tokyo where he discusses his celebrated images of old American movie theatres — offered in our New York sale on 6 April — and shows us the first photographs he ever took when he was a 9-year-old trainspotter. „The most advanced evolution of life is a human brain… that’s why I want to go back to the point where humans gained consciousness.“ Hiroshi Sugimoto is discussing his practice from his 7th-floor Tokyo apartment — a minimalist retreat high above the city, its rooms cut with streams of light. „I practice photography, architecture, performing arts — many things,“ Sugimoto explains. Today, however, it is his photographic works, which have become among his most renowned, that we are here to discuss. Working with a large-format camera, he often uses long exposures to capture scenes over an extended period of time. The approach is one that has resulted in some of Sugimoto’s most famous works, such as the Theatres series, begun in 1978. To make these images of American movie theatres — using only the light from the screen — the artist matches the exposure to the film’s running time to distil a feature-length production into a single frame. Sugimoto’s interest in photography began when he was a child — now aged 69, he still keeps the first album of photographs he made when he was just 9 years old, in 1957. With the trains in a Tokyo station as their subject, these early shots demonstrate a remarkable awareness of composition — indeed, only the height of the camera indicates that they were taken by a young boy. One of his latest projects, the design for the Odawara Art Foundation, is set to open in Kanagawa in 2017. „Architecture is the most beautiful illusion that you can ever make,“ he observes. „The human presence may not be for ever, of course – look at Greek or Roman times, or an Egyptian Pyramid. In five or six thousand years, if people still remain, they’ll look at the ruins of modern civilisation. A sense of time is a very important factor of early human consciousness,“ the artist continues. As Sugimoto becomes more distanced from that 9-year-old boy at the train station, his meditations on time take on a more personal tone. „I’m going backwards; people are going forwards,“ he muses. „The gap between me and the world is getting bigger and bigger. But I don’t care. I just do what I want to do.“ |
YouTube
Hiroshi Sugimoto | Interview: Between Sea and Sky | Louisiana Channel
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | https://www.louisiana.dk/ | Enjoy this visually stunning video featuring the legendary Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. He here describes the out-of-body experience he had when photographing the moon from a cliff, 100 meters above the sea, which later culminated in his ongoing ‘Seascape’ photographic series of the sea and its horizon. “One day I simply turned it around. Suddenly it was no longer the view of the Moon from the Earth. It became a view of the Moon from a spaceship, hanging over the Earth.” If he turned around his photos of the moon and the sea, Sugimoto realized, he could gain a cosmic vision, and thus, in 1980, a new series was created in which he intentionally looks at his photos in a vertical way. When he creates his ‘Seascapes’, he always tries to capture air and water in equal halves, applying a constant method of always splitting the frame equally between sea and sky: “When you look up at outer space there’s the Moon and the stars. But on the surface of the Earth, the farthest place people can see is a sea horizon.” Moreover, Sugimoto argues that seascapes are also pivotal in that they are the only scenery that we, in our modern world, still share with the ancients: “Resources are limited, so inevitably they will run out… In order to face a failure likely to happen in the near future, we should see once again the seascapes that the ancients saw to revert us to our innocent minds. So my work hopefully gives us an opportunity to think before destroying ourselves.” Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948) is a Japanese artist and photographer. Sugimoto is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (2001), the Praemium Imperiale Award for Painting (2009) and The Royal Photographic Society, Centenary Medal (2017). In 2006, he was the subject of a mid-career retrospective organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. Sugimoto has had solo exhibitions at prominent venues such as the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Osaka, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. His works are presently held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. and the Center for Contemporary Art in Kitakyushu in Japan. Sugimoto lives and works between New York City and Tokyo | Hiroshi Sugimoto was interviewed at the Enoura Observatory in Odawara, Japan by Haruko Hoyle in June 2018 | Camera: Yudai Maruyama | Edited by: Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen | Produced by: Kasper Bech Dyg and Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen | Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2018 | Supported by Nordea-fonden | YouTube
HOMEPAGE
https://www.sugimotohiroshi.com/
WIKIPEDIA
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
KUNSTWERKE
Hiroshi Sugimoto | Internationally acclaimed contemporary artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto, has continued to surprise the world with his discoveries of hidden beauty through the camera lens, presenting them through meticulous compositions on photographic paper. This film, which follows Sugimoto for 200 days as he travels around the globe creating artwork in various locations, reveals his inner journey driven by everlasting curiosity | YouTube
VIDEO / FILM
Hiroshi Sugimoto | The Infinite and the Immeasurable | Christie’s |
https://www.christies.com/ | The Japanese photographer’s work spans decades and, rather than seeking to capture the magic of the decisive moment, aims to evoke ‘the infinite and the immeasurable’. We visit the artist in Tokyo where he discusses his celebrated images of old American movie theatres — offered in our New York sale on 6 April — and shows us the first photographs he ever took when he was a 9-year-old trainspotter. „The most advanced evolution of life is a human brain… that’s why I want to go back to the point where humans gained consciousness.“ Hiroshi Sugimoto is discussing his practice from his 7th-floor Tokyo apartment — a minimalist retreat high above the city, its rooms cut with streams of light. „I practice photography, architecture, performing arts — many things,“ Sugimoto explains. Today, however, it is his photographic works, which have become among his most renowned, that we are here to discuss. Working with a large-format camera, he often uses long exposures to capture scenes over an extended period of time. The approach is one that has resulted in some of Sugimoto’s most famous works, such as the Theatres series, begun in 1978. To make these images of American movie theatres — using only the light from the screen — the artist matches the exposure to the film’s running time to distil a feature-length production into a single frame. Sugimoto’s interest in photography began when he was a child — now aged 69, he still keeps the first album of photographs he made when he was just 9 years old, in 1957. With the trains in a Tokyo station as their subject, these early shots demonstrate a remarkable awareness of composition — indeed, only the height of the camera indicates that they were taken by a young boy. One of his latest projects, the design for the Odawara Art Foundation, is set to open in Kanagawa in 2017. „Architecture is the most beautiful illusion that you can ever make,“ he observes. „The human presence may not be for ever, of course – look at Greek or Roman times, or an Egyptian Pyramid. In five or six thousand years, if people still remain, they’ll look at the ruins of modern civilisation. A sense of time is a very important factor of early human consciousness,“ the artist continues. As Sugimoto becomes more distanced from that 9-year-old boy at the train station, his meditations on time take on a more personal tone. „I’m going backwards; people are going forwards,“ he muses. „The gap between me and the world is getting bigger and bigger. But I don’t care. I just do what I want to do.“ |
YouTube
Hiroshi Sugimoto | Interview: Between Sea and Sky | Louisiana Channel
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | https://www.louisiana.dk/ | Enjoy this visually stunning video featuring the legendary Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. He here describes the out-of-body experience he had when photographing the moon from a cliff, 100 meters above the sea, which later culminated in his ongoing ‘Seascape’ photographic series of the sea and its horizon. “One day I simply turned it around. Suddenly it was no longer the view of the Moon from the Earth. It became a view of the Moon from a spaceship, hanging over the Earth.” If he turned around his photos of the moon and the sea, Sugimoto realized, he could gain a cosmic vision, and thus, in 1980, a new series was created in which he intentionally looks at his photos in a vertical way. When he creates his ‘Seascapes’, he always tries to capture air and water in equal halves, applying a constant method of always splitting the frame equally between sea and sky: “When you look up at outer space there’s the Moon and the stars. But on the surface of the Earth, the farthest place people can see is a sea horizon.” Moreover, Sugimoto argues that seascapes are also pivotal in that they are the only scenery that we, in our modern world, still share with the ancients: “Resources are limited, so inevitably they will run out… In order to face a failure likely to happen in the near future, we should see once again the seascapes that the ancients saw to revert us to our innocent minds. So my work hopefully gives us an opportunity to think before destroying ourselves.” Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948) is a Japanese artist and photographer. Sugimoto is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (2001), the Praemium Imperiale Award for Painting (2009) and The Royal Photographic Society, Centenary Medal (2017). In 2006, he was the subject of a mid-career retrospective organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. Sugimoto has had solo exhibitions at prominent venues such as the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Osaka, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. His works are presently held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. and the Center for Contemporary Art in Kitakyushu in Japan. Sugimoto lives and works between New York City and Tokyo | Hiroshi Sugimoto was interviewed at the Enoura Observatory in Odawara, Japan by Haruko Hoyle in June 2018 | Camera: Yudai Maruyama | Edited by: Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen | Produced by: Kasper Bech Dyg and Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen | Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2018 | Supported by Nordea-fonden | YouTube
HOMEPAGE
https://www.sugimotohiroshi.com/
WIKIPEDIA
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
KUNSTWERKE
Hiroshi Sugimoto | Internationally acclaimed contemporary artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto, has continued to surprise the world with his discoveries of hidden beauty through the camera lens, presenting them through meticulous compositions on photographic paper. This film, which follows Sugimoto for 200 days as he travels around the globe creating artwork in various locations, reveals his inner journey driven by everlasting curiosity | YouTube
VIDEO / FILM
Hiroshi Sugimoto | The Infinite and the Immeasurable | Christie’s |
https://www.christies.com/ | The Japanese photographer’s work spans decades and, rather than seeking to capture the magic of the decisive moment, aims to evoke ‘the infinite and the immeasurable’. We visit the artist in Tokyo where he discusses his celebrated images of old American movie theatres — offered in our New York sale on 6 April — and shows us the first photographs he ever took when he was a 9-year-old trainspotter. „The most advanced evolution of life is a human brain… that’s why I want to go back to the point where humans gained consciousness.“ Hiroshi Sugimoto is discussing his practice from his 7th-floor Tokyo apartment — a minimalist retreat high above the city, its rooms cut with streams of light. „I practice photography, architecture, performing arts — many things,“ Sugimoto explains. Today, however, it is his photographic works, which have become among his most renowned, that we are here to discuss. Working with a large-format camera, he often uses long exposures to capture scenes over an extended period of time. The approach is one that has resulted in some of Sugimoto’s most famous works, such as the Theatres series, begun in 1978. To make these images of American movie theatres — using only the light from the screen — the artist matches the exposure to the film’s running time to distil a feature-length production into a single frame. Sugimoto’s interest in photography began when he was a child — now aged 69, he still keeps the first album of photographs he made when he was just 9 years old, in 1957. With the trains in a Tokyo station as their subject, these early shots demonstrate a remarkable awareness of composition — indeed, only the height of the camera indicates that they were taken by a young boy. One of his latest projects, the design for the Odawara Art Foundation, is set to open in Kanagawa in 2017. „Architecture is the most beautiful illusion that you can ever make,“ he observes. „The human presence may not be for ever, of course – look at Greek or Roman times, or an Egyptian Pyramid. In five or six thousand years, if people still remain, they’ll look at the ruins of modern civilisation. A sense of time is a very important factor of early human consciousness,“ the artist continues. As Sugimoto becomes more distanced from that 9-year-old boy at the train station, his meditations on time take on a more personal tone. „I’m going backwards; people are going forwards,“ he muses. „The gap between me and the world is getting bigger and bigger. But I don’t care. I just do what I want to do.“ |
YouTube
Hiroshi Sugimoto | Interview: Between Sea and Sky | Louisiana Channel
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | https://www.louisiana.dk/ | Enjoy this visually stunning video featuring the legendary Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. He here describes the out-of-body experience he had when photographing the moon from a cliff, 100 meters above the sea, which later culminated in his ongoing ‘Seascape’ photographic series of the sea and its horizon. “One day I simply turned it around. Suddenly it was no longer the view of the Moon from the Earth. It became a view of the Moon from a spaceship, hanging over the Earth.” If he turned around his photos of the moon and the sea, Sugimoto realized, he could gain a cosmic vision, and thus, in 1980, a new series was created in which he intentionally looks at his photos in a vertical way. When he creates his ‘Seascapes’, he always tries to capture air and water in equal halves, applying a constant method of always splitting the frame equally between sea and sky: “When you look up at outer space there’s the Moon and the stars. But on the surface of the Earth, the farthest place people can see is a sea horizon.” Moreover, Sugimoto argues that seascapes are also pivotal in that they are the only scenery that we, in our modern world, still share with the ancients: “Resources are limited, so inevitably they will run out… In order to face a failure likely to happen in the near future, we should see once again the seascapes that the ancients saw to revert us to our innocent minds. So my work hopefully gives us an opportunity to think before destroying ourselves.” Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948) is a Japanese artist and photographer. Sugimoto is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (2001), the Praemium Imperiale Award for Painting (2009) and The Royal Photographic Society, Centenary Medal (2017). In 2006, he was the subject of a mid-career retrospective organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. Sugimoto has had solo exhibitions at prominent venues such as the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Osaka, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. His works are presently held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. and the Center for Contemporary Art in Kitakyushu in Japan. Sugimoto lives and works between New York City and Tokyo | Hiroshi Sugimoto was interviewed at the Enoura Observatory in Odawara, Japan by Haruko Hoyle in June 2018 | Camera: Yudai Maruyama | Edited by: Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen | Produced by: Kasper Bech Dyg and Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen | Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2018 | Supported by Nordea-fonden | YouTube
HOMEPAGE
https://www.sugimotohiroshi.com/
