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Cahiers d'Art celebrates the 100th issue of the revue with Hiroshi Sugimoto.
The issue, a true tribute to Sugimoto, is rooted in The World is Dead Today, a story written by Sugimoto for his exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo (2015), in which his photographic works are juxtaposed against his eclectic antiques collection recounting the end of modernity.
Issue No.1 2014 is a rare opportunity to see unpublished works reproduced at the highest standard. Serpentine Gallery co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed Sugimoto for the issue and Akiko Miki, Chief Curator, Palais de Tokyo, has contributed an important text on the artist's work.
Hiroshi Sugimoto was born in Japan in 1948. A photographer since the 1970s, his work deals with history and temporal existence by investigating themes of time, empiricism, and metaphysics. His primary series include: Seascapes, Theaters, Dioramas, Portraits (of Madame Tussaud's wax figures), Architecture, Colors of Shadow, Conceptual Forms and Lightning Fields. Sugimoto has received a number of grants and fellowships, and his work is held in the collections of the Tate Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Metropolitan Museum of New York, among many others.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto is an artist based between New York and Tokyo. Over six decades, he has redefined the metaphysical possibilities of the still image, working fluidly across photography, architecture, sculpture, and performance to probe the limits of perception through projects such as Seascapes and Theaters, his landmark series of large-format black-and-white photographs. Throughout his career, he has published hundreds of books and staged exhibitions across the world, including Hiroshi Sugimoto: Extinction at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Replay the melody at Musée Soulages, Rodez, France; and Hiroshi Sugimoto: Form Is Emptiness at the Singapore Art Museum, all on view this fall. As the guest editor of this issue, Sugimoto has convened a range of writers and artists who share his curiosity about the mysteries of time, light, and nature.
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