Hiroshi Sugimoto

Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exh. Cat., New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum; Gunma, Hara Museum ARC, Hiroshi Sugimoto, 1995-1996, p. 27, illustrated (another example illustrated)
Exh. Cat., Bregenz, Kunsthaus;Bielefeld, Kunthaus; Edinburgh, Fruitmarket Gallery; Edinburgh, Stills Gallery,  Architecture of Time, 2001-2002, illustrated (another example illustrated)
Exh. Cat., Tokyo, Mori Art Museum; Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Hiroshi Sugimoto, 2005-2006, p. 136; illustrated on the cover (another example illustrated)

This work is in very good condition. The sheet is mounted on an acid-free matte and framed under glass.
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Since 1980 Sugimoto has traveled to remote seaside cliffs around the world to make the mesmerizing minimal images in this series.  Avoiding dramatic weather and human incident, he focused instead on the meeting of sea and sky.  This featureless, iconic definition of his subject leads the viewer to attend to the delicately elusive qualities of windswept water, shredding mists, and luminous haze that are specific to each locale.  Circling the globe, suffused by countless different atmospheres, the horizon appears and disappears: a razor, a mirage, a dancing, undetectable presence.  Out of the many views there emerges a larger unity, a poetic expression of the primal that hovers tantalizingly before and beyond the present, suspended in timeless continuity with the world's first day.
Maria Morris Hambourg (Exh. Cat., Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Sugimoto, 1996, pp. 12-13)