Hiroshi Sugimoto

(61 years old, born 1948)
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
From Colors of Shadow
Sonnabend

Colors of Shadow: C1016 (2006)
Pigment print
66.8 x 55.2 in
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
From Colors of Shadow
Sonnabend

Colors of Shadow: C1020 (2006)
Pigment print
66.8 x 55.2 in
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO

Napoleon Bonapart (1999)
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
From 7 Days / 7 Nights
Gagosian Gallery

Ligurian Sea (1993)
Gelatin silver print
47 x 58 3/4 inches unframed (119.4 x 149.2 cm)
Ed. of 5
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
Winning Bid: £13,000

Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale
London, October 17, 2009
Lot: 119

Winnetika Drive-In, Paramount (1993)
gelatin silver print
20 x 24in. (50.8 x 60.7cm.)
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO


Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale
London, October 17, 2009
Lot: 120

Woodland Chapel (2001)
gelatin silver print
23¾ x 19½in. (60.3 x 49.5cm.)
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
Winning Bid: £8,800

Sotheby's Contemporary Art Including Arab & Iranian Art
London, October 16, 2009
Lot: 125

Hall Of Thirty Three Bays
Executed in 1995.
gelatin silver print
image: 42.3 by 54.3cm.; 16 5/8 by 21 5/8 in. sheet: 45 by 59.5cm.; 17 3/4 by 23 3/8 in.
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
Winning Bid: £40,000

Sotheby's Contemporary Art Including Arab & Iranian Art
London, October 16, 2009
Lot: 224

Baltic Sea, Rugen


two gelatin silver prints
each image: 42.5 by 54cm.; 16 3/4 by 21 1/4 in. each sheet: 47.9 by 58cm.; 18 7/8 by 22 7/8 in.
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
Winning Bid: £12,000

Sotheby's Contemporary Art Including Arab & Iranian Art
London, October 16, 2009
Lot: 225

Bay Of Sagami Atami

gelatin silver print
image: 42.2 by 54.4cm.; 16 5/8 by 21 3/8 in. sheet: 47.5 by 60cm.; 18 3/4 by 23 5/8 in.
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO


Sotheby's Contemporary Art Including Arab & Iranian Art
London, October 16, 2009
Lot: 236

The Royal Family
Executed in 1994, this work is a printer's proof aside from an edition of 25.
gelatin silver print
image: 42.2 by 53.9cm.; 16 5/8 by 21 1/4 in.
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
Winning Bid: £4,800

Phillips De Pury Now: Art of the 21st Century
London, September 26, 2009
Lot: 213

Mechanical Form, Material Test...

Gelatin silver print. 25.3 x 20.3 cm. (10 x 8 in). 
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
Winning Bid: $15,000

Sotheby's Contemporary Art
New York, September 24, 2009
Lot: 278

Hall Of Thirty Three Bays
Executed in 1995, this work is number 3 from an edition of 25.
black and white photograph
image: 16 1/2 by 21 1/4 in. 41.9 by 54 cm.
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
Winning Bid: £8,000

Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Day
London, July 1, 2009
Lot: 296

Hall of Thirty Three Bays (1995)
gelatin silver print
17½ x 23 5/8in. (44.3 x 59.9cm.)
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
Winning Bid: £11,000

Phillips De Pury Contemporary Day
London, June 29, 2009
Lot: 210

Rietveld-Schroeder House

Gelatin silver print. 47 x 58.4 cm. (18 1/2 x 23 in). 
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
Winning Bid: £22,000

Phillips De Pury Contemporary Day
London, June 29, 2009
Lot: 211

Two works: (i)Vermont Drive-in...

Gelatin silver print. Each: 47 x 60 cm. (18 1/2 x 23 5/8 in). 
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
Winning Bid: £21,000

Sotheby's Contemporary Day
London, June 26, 2009
Lot: 189

Baltic Sea, Rugen

measurements
image: 42.3 by 54cm.; 16 3/4 by 21 1/4 in.
alternate measurements
sheet: 47.3 by 60cm.; 18 5/8 by 23 5/8 in.
gelatin silver print
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
Winning Bid: £21,000

Sotheby's Contemporary Day
London, June 26, 2009
Lot: 190

Gulf Of Bothnia, Hornslandet

measurements
image: 42.3 by 54cm.; 16 5/8 by 21 1/4 in.
alternate measurements
sheet: 47.3 by 60cm.; 18 5/8 by 23 5/8 in.
gelatin silver print
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
Winning Bid: $20,000

Phillips De Pury Contemporary Art Part II
New York, May 15, 2009
Lot: 248

Orange Drive-In, Orange

Gelatin silver print.   20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm). 
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO


Christie's Post-War And Contemporary Art Afternoon
New York, May 14, 2009
Lot: 382

Rietveld-Schroeder House (1999)
gelatin silver print mounted on board in artist's frame
unframed: 47 x 58¾ in. (119.4 x 149.2 cm.)
framed: 60 x 71¾ in. (152.4 x 182.2 cm.)
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO


Christie's Post-War And Contemporary Art Afternoon
New York, May 14, 2009
Lot: 384

United Nations Headquarters (1997)
gelatin silver print mounted on board in artist's frame
unframed: 58¾ x 47 in. (149.2 x 119.3 cm.)
frame: 71¾ x 60 in. (182.2 x 152.4 cm.)
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
Winning Bid: $18,000

Christie's Post-War And Contemporary Art Afternoon
New York, May 14, 2009
Lot: 386

Stadium Drive-In, Orange (1993)
gelatin silver print mounted on paper
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 60.9 cm.)
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
Winning Bid: $21,000

Sotheby's Contemporary Art Day
New York, May 13, 2009
Lot: 459

Garterbrau, Vienna

20 by 24 in. 50.8 by 61 cm.
gelatin silver print
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO


Sotheby's Contemporary Asian Art
Hong Kong, April 6, 2009
Lot: 694

Bay Of Sagami, Atami

measurements note
image: 42.2 by 54 cm.; 16 5/8 by 21 1/4 in.
sheet: 47.3 by 60 cm.; 18 5/8 by 23 1/2 in.
gelatin silver print
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO


Sotheby's Contemporary Asian Art
Hong Kong, April 6, 2009
Lot: 695

Bay Of Sagami, Atami

measurements note
image: 42.2 by 54 cm.; 16 5/8 by 21 1/4 in.
sheet: 47.3 by 60 cm.; 18 5/8 by 23 1/2 in.
gelatin silver print
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO


Christie's First Open Post-War And Contemporary Art
New York, March 11, 2009
Lot: 36

Galvez House (2002)
gelatin silver print mounted on paper
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm.)
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO


Christie's First Open Post-War And Contemporary Art
New York, March 11, 2009
Lot: 37

Honen Dam (2001)
gelatin silver print mounted on paper
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm.)
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
Winning Bid: $11,000

Christie's First Open Post-War And Contemporary Art
New York, March 11, 2009
Lot: 112

Tempelhof Airport (2000)
gelatin silver print mounted on paper
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm.)
Artwork
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
Winning Bid: $16,000

Sotheby's Contemporary
New York, March 10, 2009
Lot: 186

U.a. Play House N.y.

measurements
image: 16 1/2 by 21 3/8 in.; 41.9 by 54.3 cm.
alternate measurements
overall: 19 7/8 by 23 7/8 in.; 50.5 by 60.6 cm.
gelatin silver print

Galleries showing Hiroshi Sugimoto

Antwerpen
FIFTY ONE Fine Art Photography
Athens
Gagosian Gallery
Barcelona
Principal Art
Beverly Hills
Gagosian Gallery
Geneva
Mitterrand + Cramer / Fine Art
Köln
Fiedler Contemporary
London
Gagosian Gallery
Hackelbury Fine Art Ltd
Moscow
Gagosian Gallery (closed)
New York
Gagosian Gallery
Joseph K. Levene Fine Art, Ltd.
Sonnabend
Roma
Gagosian Gallery
Tokyo
Gallery Koyanagi
Torino
Paolo Tonin arte contemporanea

Solo Shows with Hiroshi Sugimoto

7 Days / 7 Nights at Gagosian GalleryNov 6, 2008-Mar 7, 2009
Colors of Shadow at SonnabendOct 28, 2006-Dec 9, 2006

Group Shows with Hiroshi Sugimoto

Shaping Space at James Cohan GalleryJan 16, 2009-Feb 14, 2009
James Cohan Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of a new group exhibition, Shaping Space, on January 16. This selection of works examines how artists literally and conceptually shape the object and its environment. With nineteen-sixties Minima...
FOR A LANGUAGE TO COME - A Collection of Seminal Japanese Photobooks at Carolina Nitsch Contemporary ArtSep 12, 2008-Nov 1, 2008
Carolina Nitsch is pleased to present FOR A LANGUAGE TO COME – Provoking Change in Japanese Postwar Photography at Carolina Nitsch Project Room in Chelsea. This exhibition of photographers and their seminal books in postwar Japan surveys a highpoint ...
Portraits at Luhring AugustineOct 20, 2007-Nov 17, 2007
Luhring Augustine is pleased to present Portraits, a group exhibition of painting, photography, video and sculpture exploring modern and contemporary practices in the genre of portraiture. In its most literal manifestation, a portrait is a visual r...
Pure (a group exhibition) at Sean Kelly GalleryMar 24, 2007-Apr 28, 2007
Sean Kelly is delighted to announce a group exhibition Pure, which opens on March 24. The exhibition brings together works in diverse media that address the formal qualities of the color white and reflectivity. The exhibition continues through Apri...
Variations on a Theme at SEPIA International | The Alkazi CollectionFeb 2, 2007-Mar 3, 2007
Six Ruminations on Recurrence...

Exhibitions by iCI - Independent Curators International

At the Threshold of the Visible: Minuscule and Small-Scale Art, 1964–1996(1997 - 1999)
Making It Real(1997 - 1999)

Exhibitions

Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art

Posted: 2007-04-09
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Curated by: Francesco Bonami

1st April – 30th September 2007

Villa Manin Centre for
Contemporary Art
Passariano, Codroipo (Udine) Italy
Tel: +39 0432 821211
Fax: +39 0432 908387
http://www.villamanincontemporanea.it
info at villamanincontemporanea . it

Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art announces the opening on April 1st 2007 of the first large-scale exhibition in Italy dedicated to Hiroshi Sugimoto, one of the most important photographers on the international contemporary art scene.

The show, curated by Francesco Bonami, brings together fifty large-scale photographic works and two sculptures by the Japanese artist.

The great variety of works presented touches on all the themes of the artist’s work, from the first Dioramas in 1975 to the series Theaters, Seascapes, Portraits, Conceptual forms, up to the new projects Lightning Field and Talbot.

Strongly inspired by the conceptual and minimalist tradition, Hiroshi Sugimoto’s works deal with the idea of photography and deny its limits and definitions. As Francesco Bonami says: “Sugimoto’s work is a search into the origins of History, be this the zoological history of the earth or that of human actions, seen, symbolically, through the passing of time inside the camera lens and by using film as the surface of memory”.

The artist, impressed on his very first visit to Villa Manin by the seventeenth century building which will host the show, has conceived the entire installation plan creating, between his works and the exhibition spaces, a series of references and allusions which can be apparent but also more subtle, as to involve the visitor in a mental game that unravels through the various rooms. An example of this is the bedroom on the ground floor – the one that Napoleon used to sleep in when he chose Villa Manin as his headquarters for a new redefinition of Europe. In this very room the photograph Napoleon Bonapart is displayed, a work belonging to the series Portraits, through which the artist portrays historical figures and contemporary personalities. All the photographs of this theme group have been taken by isolating and illuminating on black backdrops wax statues present in various museums, thus emphasizing the reference to the models by which they are inspired, such as the paintings by Jacques-Louis David and Hans Holbein.

Hiroshi Sugimoto has been extremely respectful of the exhibition spaces, unveiling the walls and frescoes of the dogal residence: a few photographs - placed on simple easels designed by the artist himself - characterise each room, with the exception of the one that combines, almost like a family reunion, Henry VIII and the portraits of his unfortunate wives.

Throughout this retrospective all the various series can be encountered, such as the Dioramas, that are characterised by scenes of primitive life taken in natural history museums and that disorientate the viewer, who is used to associate a certain type of documentary photography with the reproduction of reality; or the series entitled Theaters, taken in cinema-theatres of the Twenties and Thirties such as the Radio City Music Hall in New York and the Metropolitan Theatre in Los Angeles. Here Sugimoto tried to condense the flow of time and the perception of space into a single moment, levelling out the exposure time and that of the duration of the film projection. The white and bright rectangle that derives from it illuminates the otherwise dark room and contains the traces of a longer unit of time. Time is also the protagonist of the series Seascapes, where water and air meet exactly halfway in the image, in the attempt to recreate the first, absolute vis ion of the sea experienced by the ancient explorers.

The desire to test his ability to reproduce the “non representable” has lead the artist, over the years, to confront tangible models in order to express theoretical and spiritual concepts, such as the curved surfaces of Conceptual Forms that represent numerical formulae.

With the use of sophisticated games of illusions and references, Sugimoto pushes the viewer to actively confront the image and the ambiguous weave between time and memory that it communicates.



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