Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present a major new body of work by Hiroshi Sugimoto. Inspired by the earliest photographic experiments of William Henry Fox Talbot, the 19th century inventor who developed the negative-positive process, Sugimoto refers to his newest pictures using Talbot’s own term, Photogenic Drawings.
The China Bridge over the River Avon at Lacock Abbey, April 3, 1840, 2009
toned gelatin silver print, 48-7/8 x 41-1/2 inches (framed) [124.1 x 105.4 cm]
The China Bridge over the River Avon at Lacock Abbey, April 3, 1840, 2009
toned gelatin silver print, 48-7/8 x 41-1/2 inches (framed) [124.1 x 105.4 cm]
Working from Talbot’s original paper negatives, Sugimoto’s vastly enlarged prints are arresting in their detail and atmosphere. The artist’s collaboration with Talbot encompasses the panoply of subject matter that has formed the backbone of photographic history—still-lifes, landscapes, architectural views, and portraits.
Lace, 2009
toned gelatin silver print, 48-7/8 x 41-1/2 inches (framed) [124.1 x 105.4 cm]
Lace, 2009
toned gelatin silver print, 48-7/8 x 41-1/2 inches (framed) [124.1 x 105.4 cm]
By returning to, and enlarging, these traces from the origins of photography, Sugimoto’s Photogenic Drawings re-examine the magical effects of these first ‘drawings with light’.
Asplenium Halleri, Grande Chartreuse 1821 – Cardamine Pratensis, April 1839, 2008
toned gelatin silver print, 48-7/8 x 41-1/2 inches (framed) [124.1 x 105.4 cm]
Asplenium Halleri, Grande Chartreuse 1821 – Cardamine Pratensis, April 1839, 2008
toned gelatin silver print, 48-7/8 x 41-1/2 inches (framed) [124.1 x 105.4 cm]
Works on View
Group of Seven at Lacock Abbey, April 1844, 2009
toned gelatin silver print, 48-7/8 x 41-1/2 inches (framed) [124.1 x 105.4 cm]
Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948) has lived and worked in New York City since 1974. His work has been the subject of solo and group exhibitions worldwide. In 2006, the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. and the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo organized Hiroshi Sugimoto, a mid-career retrospective that travelled extensively. His work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; and Tate Modern, London, among others. He is the recipient of many awards including the Praemium Imperiale for painting (2009); the Hasselblad Foundation Award (2001); and the ICP Infinity Award for Art (1999). Monographs include: Time Exposed (1991); Sea of Buddha (1997); Sugimoto: In Praise of Shadows (1998); Theaters (2000); and The Nature of Light (2009).
