HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
Hiroshi Sugimoto (born in Tokyo Japan in 1947) is a Japanese artist and photographer. Since the 1970s he integrated performance and architecture to his multidisciplinary practice. When he first arrived in New York in 1974, I visited many of the city's tourist sites, one of which was the the American Museum of Natural History” I made a curious discovery while looking at the exhibition of animal dioramas: the stuffed animals positioned before painted backdrops looked utterly fake, yet by taking a quick peek with one eye closed, all perspective vanished,and suddenly they looked very real. I had found a way to see the world as a camera does” .
Past exhibitions:
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(2020) Frame of Japan, Hosomi Museum, Kyoto
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(2020) Kyoto City Kyocera, Museum of Art, Kyoto
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(2019) Marian Goodman Gallery, NY City
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(2018) Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
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(2018) Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
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(2017) Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, London
Permanently collected by:
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY City
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MoMA, NY City
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National Gallery, Washington
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Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
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Tate Gallery, London
Titolo: Serie “Dioramas” - Gorilla
Gelatin silver on canvas
Size: 16.5 x 21.3 inches / 42 x 54 cm
Year: 1994
Edition: 3/25