Hiroshi Sugimoto
14 Jul 2007 - 06 Jan 2008
Hiroshi Sugimoto, the Japanese master of photography, combines Far-Eastern traditions with aspects of Western modernism and post-modernism in his artistic approach.
Over the past thirty years, the artist created a stylistically and conceptually coherent oeuvre. His work’s beauty and auratic effect result from the strict formal structuring of his pictures and an elaborate developing technique. Since the beginning of the nineties, Sugimoto has been internationally present with exhibitions at important museums. However, so far only excerpts of his oeuvre have been on display in Germany.
Now the first comprehensive retrospective has been planned including more than 55 photographies and at least one sculpture which will be shown in settings created by the artist himself. The presentation will include examples from all of the artist’s important series, the Wax Portraits, Dioramas, Theaters, Architectures, Seascapes, Pine Trees, Colors of Shadow, Conceptual Forms and probably also from a new series which has not been shown yet.
Over the past thirty years, the artist created a stylistically and conceptually coherent oeuvre. His work’s beauty and auratic effect result from the strict formal structuring of his pictures and an elaborate developing technique. Since the beginning of the nineties, Sugimoto has been internationally present with exhibitions at important museums. However, so far only excerpts of his oeuvre have been on display in Germany.
Now the first comprehensive retrospective has been planned including more than 55 photographies and at least one sculpture which will be shown in settings created by the artist himself. The presentation will include examples from all of the artist’s important series, the Wax Portraits, Dioramas, Theaters, Architectures, Seascapes, Pine Trees, Colors of Shadow, Conceptual Forms and probably also from a new series which has not been shown yet.