Hiroshi Sugimoto (B. 1948)

Hall of Thirty Three Bays

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Hiroshi Sugimoto (B. 1948)
Hall of Thirty Three Bays
signed 'Hiroshi Sugimoto' (on the artist's mount); blind stamped with number '2/25 019' (on the margin)
gelatin silver print
17 x 23 5/8in. (44.3 x 59.9cm.)
Executed in 1995, this work is number two from an edition of twenty-five

来源

Sonnabend Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1998.

出版

G.R. Denson, "Belichtung und Erleuchtung: das Phaenomen des hermeneutischen Zirkels in Hiroshi Sugimotos kontemplativer Photographie", in Parkett, no. 46, Zurich 1996 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 151).

展览

Norwich, Sainburgy Centre for Visual Arts, Sanjusangen-do: The Hall of Thirty-Three Bays, 1997 (another from the edition exhibited).
Madrid, Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación "la Caixa", Sugimoto, 1998-1999 (another from the edition exhibited). This exhibition later travelled to Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém.

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拍品专文

'The New York art scene in the 1970s was dominated by minimal and conceptual art, experiments in visualising abstract concepts. It occured to me that similar motives inspired the making of art in twelfth-century Japan. In a Kyoto temple, there is an eight-hundred-year-old installation of a thousand-and-one Senju Kanon, the 'Thousand-Armed Merciful Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara' figures, which is a three-dimensional representation of the Buddhist afterlife, the Pure Land Western Paradise. After seven years of red tape, I was finally granted permission to photograph in the temple of Sanjusangen-do, the embellishments removed, and the contemporary fluorescent lighting was turned off. Stripping the temple of these additions re-created the splendor of the thousand bodhisattvas glistening in the light of the sun rising over the Higashiyama Hills, perhaps as the Kyoto aristocracy of the Heian period (794-1185) might have seen them. Will today's conceptual art survive another eight hundred years?'

(H. Sugimoto quoted in K. Brougher & D. Elliott (eds.), Hiroshi Sugimoto, exh. cat., Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 2005-2006, n.p.)