Hiroshi Sugimoto: Distillé 1976-2024

As Paris Photo returns to the newly-renovated Grand Palais, Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present a solo booth featuring work by Hiroshi Sugimoto. The central focus of the booth will be two immense folding screens featuring photographs of Japanese landmarks of sacred significance, delicately printed onto washi paper. Surveying the range and depth of the artist’s conceptual practice, the gallery will also present selections from celebrated series including Seascapes, Dioramas, Theaters, Lighting Fields, and Brush Impression, one-of-a-kind calligraphic photographs made by painting Japanese characters onto light-sensitive paper. Other highlights include work from Past Presence, for which the artist photographed Giacometti sculpture in daylight and then at dusk, creating images that “for me…evoked an image of two figures in Noh drama,” Sugimoto has written. For the artist, the photographs find a connection between the sculpture and the supernatural aspects of the Japanese dance theater tradition. The recent exhibition Giacometti/Sugimoto: Staged at the Institut Giacometti in Paris paired these photographs with Giacometti’s sculpture and ancient Noh masks from Sugimoto’s collection.