HIROSHI SUGIMOTO – SURFACE TENSION
2017-10-30Surface Tension, is a collection of images from the artist’s Seascapes series (1980– ). For Sugimoto, contemplating and photographing images of the seas of the world connects the present to the past and as well as the history of those seas to the land where he sets up his camera. The ever moving surface of the sea ensures that each work has it its own unrepeatable characteristics, communicated via weather, atmosphere and the illumination of the sun or the moon. The singular unifying element throughout the series is the perfectly balanced composition between the lower half weighted with the sea, and the airy upper half depicting the sky, each seascape divided dead centre by the horizon line. In Paris, the artist will present work from the 1990’s to his most recent works of the Tasman sea photographed in 2017.
Opposite – Tasman Sea, Marion Bay, 2017
Exhibition runs through to December 22nd, 2017
Marian Goodman Gallery
79 Rue Du Temple
75003 Paris
