Hiroshi Sugimoto

(61 years old, born 1948)

Sample work by Hiroshi Sugimoto

Colors of Shadow: C1016 (2006)
Pigment print
66.8 x 55.2 in

From Colors of Shadow at Sonnabend.

Galleries showing Hiroshi Sugimoto

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FIFTY ONE Fine Art Photography
Barcelona
Principal Art
Beverly Hills
Gagosian Gallery
Köln
Fiedler Contemporary
London
Gagosian Gallery
Moscow
Gagosian Gallery
New York
Gagosian Gallery
Joseph K. Levene Fine Art, Ltd.
Sonnabend
Roma
Gagosian Gallery
San Francisco
Fraenkel 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...

Hiroshi Sugimoto Auction Archive

200921 lots (20 results, 30% unsold, 1 upcoming)
200856 lots (56 results, 25% unsold)
200740 lots (40 results, 3% unsold)
200617 lots (17 results, 0% unsold)

Auction Results

Premium is the auction house commission. It is added to the winning bid and charged to the buyer. To allow a comparison of winning bids and auction house estimates, the amounts below do not include buyer's premium, unless explicitly stated. Only contemporary art auctions after November 1, 2006 are included. The results do not include all actions at all auction houses.
Display currency as:
Christie's, Post-War and Contemporary Day, London, July 1, 2009
Lot: 296Hall of Thirty Three Bays (1995)
gelatin silver print
17½ x 23 5/8in. (44.3 x 59.9cm.)
Estimate: £6,000 - £8,000upcoming
Phillips De Pury, Contemporary Day, London, June 29, 2009
Lot: 210Rietveld-Schroeder House
Gelatin silver print. 47 x 58.4 cm. (18 1/2 x 23 in). 
Estimate: £8,000 - £12,000
Premium:    25.0%£2,750
Result with premium:   £13,750
£11,000
Lot: 211Two works: (i)Vermont Drive-in...
Gelatin silver print. Each: 47 x 60 cm. (18 1/2 x 23 5/8 in). 
Estimate: £18,000 - £25,000
Premium:    25.0%£5,500
Result with premium:   £27,500
£22,000
Sotheby's, Contemporary Day, London, June 26, 2009
Lot: 189Baltic Sea, Rugen
measurementsimage: 42.3 by 54cm.; 16 3/4 by 21 1... more
Estimate: £12,000 - £18,000
Premium:    25.0%£5,250
Result with premium:   £26,250
£21,000
Lot: 190Gulf Of Bothnia, Hornslandet
measurementsimage: 42.3 by 54cm.; 16 5/8 by 21 1... more
Estimate: £12,000 - £18,000
Premium:    25.0%£5,250
Result with premium:   £26,250
£21,000
Phillips De Pury, Contemporary Art Part II, New York, May 15, 2009
Lot: 248Orange Drive-In, Orange
Gelatin silver print.   20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm). 
Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000
Premium:    25.0%$5,000
Result with premium:   $25,000
$20,000
Christie's, Post-War And Contemporary Art Afternoon, New York, May 14, 2009
Lot: 382Rietveld-Schroeder House (1999)
gelatin silver print mounted on board in artist's ... more
Estimate: $60,000 - $80,000unsold/withdrawn
Lot: 384United Nations Headquarters (1997)
gelatin silver print mounted on board in artist's ... more
Estimate: $60,000 - $80,000unsold/withdrawn
Lot: 386Stadium Drive-In, Orange (1993)
gelatin silver print mounted on paper 20 x 24 in. ... more
Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000
Premium:    25.0%$4,500
Result with premium:   $22,500
$18,000
Sotheby's, Contemporary Art Day, New York, May 13, 2009
Lot: 459Garterbrau, Vienna
20 by 24 in. 50.8 by 61 cm.
gelatin silver print
Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000
Premium:    25.0%$5,250
Result with premium:   $26,250
$21,000
Sotheby's, Contemporary Asian Art, Hong Kong, April 6, 2009
Lot: 694Bay Of Sagami, Atami
measurements noteimage: 42.2 by 54 cm.; 16 5/8 b... more
Estimate: 150,000 HKD - 200,000 HKDunsold/withdrawn
Lot: 695Bay Of Sagami, Atami
measurements noteimage: 42.2 by 54 cm.; 16 5/8 b... more
Estimate: 150,000 HKD - 200,000 HKDunsold/withdrawn
Christie's, First Open Post-War And Contemporary Art, New York, March 11, 2009
Lot: 36Galvez House (2002)
gelatin silver print mounted on paper
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm.)
Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000unsold/withdrawn
Lot: 37Honen Dam (2001)
gelatin silver print mounted on paper
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm.)
Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000unsold/withdrawn
Lot: 112Tempelhof Airport (2000)
gelatin silver print mounted on paper
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm.)
Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000
Premium:    25.0%$2,750
Result with premium:   $13,750
$11,000
Sotheby's, Contemporary, New York, March 10, 2009
Lot: 186U.a. Play House N.y.
measurementsimage: 16 1/2 by 21 3/8 in.; 41.9 b... more
Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000
Premium:    25.0%$4,000
Result with premium:   $20,000
$16,000
Christie's, Post-War And Contemporary Art Day, London, February 12, 2009
Lot: 101Plaza, New York (1977)
gelatin silver print
20 x 23 7/8in. (50.7 x 60.6cm.)
Estimate: £12,000 - £18,000
Premium:    25.0%£5,500
Result with premium:   £27,500
£22,000
Lot: 102Beekman, New York (1977)
gelatin silver print
20 x 23 7/8in. (50.7 x 60.6cm.)
Estimate: £12,000 - £18,000
Premium:    25.0%£5,000
Result with premium:   £25,000
£20,000
Lot: 103Hall of Thirty Three Bays (1995)
gelatin silver print
17½ x 23 5/8in. (44.3 x 59.9cm.)
Estimate: £6,000 - £8,000
Premium:    25.0%£2,250
Result with premium:   £11,250
£9,000
Sotheby's, Contemporary Art Day, London, February 6, 2009
Lot: 209Bay Of Sagami, Atami
measurementsimage: 42.3 by 54cm.; 16 5/8 by 21¼i... more
Estimate: £15,000 - £20,000
Premium:    25.0%£5,500
Result with premium:   £27,500
£22,000

For the remaining auction results, see auction archive above.

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.



Museum Collections


Books/DVDs/VHS by or about Hiroshi Sugimoto

Sugimoto: Architecture
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Francesco Bonami, Marco De Michelis, John Yau
Sugimoto: Portraits
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Nancy Spector, Tracey Bashkoff
By the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Joe
Jonathan Safran Foer, Takaaki Matsumoto, Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Kerry Brougher, David Elliott

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