Colors of Shadow, C1032, 2006

Hiroshi Sugimoto has proved himself an eloquent master of understatement. He works in series. An idea is developed through a number of variations on his theme, be it the stillness of a seascape, the glow of cinema screens, the willfully softened forms of major works of architecture. In each project and in each individual image we are invited beyond the physical reality of his subject into a poetic, philosophical experience of it.
Colors of Shadow was the first series undertaken by Sugimoto in colour. The present image, characteristic of the artist and of the series, reduces his subject - an architectural interior - to its most minimal, emblematic elements, a discreet, nuanced play of geometric form and tone.