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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Surface Tension

Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris

Sat 28 Oct 2017 to Fri 22 Dec 2017

79 & 66 Rue Du Temple, 75003 Hiroshi Sugimoto: Surface Tension

Tue-Sat 11am-7pm

Artist: Hiroshi Sugimoto

Marian Goodman Gallery presents two simultaneous exhibitions of works by Hiroshi Sugimoto at the London and Paris Galleries.

Working across photography, sculpture, installation and most recently architecture, Sugimoto explores his concerns of time, memory and societal progress, tracing their origins, while bridging Eastern and Western ideologies.

The Paris gallery presents Surface Tension, a collection of images from the artist’s Seascapes series (1980– ). For Sugimoto, contemplating and photographing images of the seas of the world connects the present to the past and as well as the history of those seas to the land where he sets up his camera. The ever moving surface of the sea ensures that each work has it its own unrepeatable characteristics, communicated via weather, atmosphere and the illumination of the sun or the moon. The singular unifying element throughout the series is the perfectly balanced composition between the lower half weighted with the sea, and the airy upper half depicting the sky, each seascape divided dead centre by the horizon line. In Paris, the artist presents work from the 1990’s to his most recent works of the Tasman sea photographed in 2017.

In Paris, the artist also shows five works from his optical glass sculpture series known as the Five Elements. Taking the form from a traditional pagoda, this object comprises five shapes. Each shape has a representational meaning, referring to the Buddhist cosmological doctrine of Five Universals. The square form represents the earth, the globe signifies water, the pyramid is fire, the semi globe is air, and a teardrop form at the top represents emptiness. Each work has a single seascape embedded in the glass globe. In the downstairs vaulted gallery stands one of the Five Elements sculptures across from a photograph of Kegon Falls, Japan, a popular tourist destination and attraction because of its magnificent waterfall.

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