May 12 to July 7, 2012.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nOf all the exhibitions currently adorning the walls and atria of 798, Hiroshi Sugimoto\u2019s solo at Pace has international \u201cmaster artist\u201d cachet. On show are excerpts from a number of his major series. All are gelatine silver prints born of what Sugimoto calls \u201cthe abandoned realm of analog silver\u201d in a slightly immodest preface in which he also aligns his technically anachronistic processes and \u201cinfinite monochrome tonalities\u201d with the influence of Song Dynasty masters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But it is a lyrical introduction, too, wherein he remarks on the passing of old methods (\u201cThe tide has gone out on\u2026silver halide photography\u201d), consumed by the waves of the digital new, thus invoking a metaphor which summons nicely the final room of the exhibition, where hang the famous seascapes begun in 1980. A visual hymn of horizontal grey \u2014 sky and sea alone \u2014 these fast exposures reverberate simultaneously with the movements and mass of the ocean, preserved in a consummate shot. Their steadfastness hinges not only on Sugimoto\u2019s perfectionism, but also on the status of the photograph as an incision into time. Here, one feels this is not of a contemporary instant \u2014 a moment taken \u2014 but a deep cut through innumerable layers into the unchanged field of the ocean \u2014 its depth now temporal, its waves unmeasured. Working backwards through the show, the movie theater series, for which the shutter remained open for the entire time lapse of a film, are striking again. Pristine, somehow sublime, these screens incandescent with the rush of images through them stand luminous in contrast with the dark architectural details and rows of seats attending them. There are messianic echoes, even, in these black boxes bleached out by their own messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thus, there are subjects which seem perfectly suited to Sugimoto\u2019s fascination with time and his highly finished approach \u2014 the sea, sky and screens, fields of water or light on a horizontal format. The rest of this exhibition consists of extracts from four other series: Lightening Fields<\/em>, Dioramas<\/em>, Conceptual Forms<\/em> and Henry VIII and His Wives<\/em>. The first of these, wherein the effects of electrical discharges are recorded, make for dramatic if ultimately unmoving works. The smooth forms, too, of instruments made to visualize mathematical concepts are astutely attractive, reminiscent of Edward Weston\u2019s monochrome studies of shells and other natural objects. The other two series, however \u2014 products of Sugimoto\u2019s interest in recreating or constructing \u201creal\u201d images \u2014 are arguably less easily liked. Whereas the Henry VIII\u2026<\/em> series might be interpreted with interest from an art historical point of view (for emulating lighting effects from 16th Century painting) and remembered for an eerie quality, the examples here from Sugimoto\u2019s Dioramas<\/em> \u2014 particularly that of early man and woman strolling through a sketchy landscape \u2014 are offputtingly bogus. Moving quickly past these, the exhibition develops through photographs of objects, theaters and oceans into something altogether more eminent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Solo exhibition at Pace Beijing Solo exh … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[8599,8597,8598,5172,8600,8601,8603,8602,106,8604,8605],"yoast_head":"\nHiroshi Sugimoto - \u71c3\u70b9 Ran Dian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/hiroshi-sugimoto\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"zh_CN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hiroshi Sugimoto - \u71c3\u70b9 Ran Dian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Solo exhibition at Pace Beijing Solo exh … Continue reading →\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/hiroshi-sugimoto\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"\u71c3\u70b9 Ran Dian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-07-06T11:39:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-05-02T11:42:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2023\/05\/hiroshi-sugimoto.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1332\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Duyen Le\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"\u4f5c\u8005\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Duyen Le\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"\u9884\u8ba1\u9605\u8bfb\u65f6\u95f4\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3\u5206\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/hiroshi-sugimoto\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/hiroshi-sugimoto\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Duyen Le\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/#\/schema\/person\/4d95ceea857b4c4fde91b6437bfaee13\"},\"headline\":\"Hiroshi Sugimoto\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-07-06T11:39:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-05-02T11:42:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/hiroshi-sugimoto\/\"},\"wordCount\":513,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"conceptual forms\",\"dioramas\",\"henry viii\",\"hiroshi sugimoto\",\"lightning\",\"natural history\",\"neanderthals\",\"ocean\",\"Pace Beijing\",\"silver\",\"waves\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Reviews\"],\"inLanguage\":\"zh-CN\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/hiroshi-sugimoto\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/hiroshi-sugimoto\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/hiroshi-sugimoto\/\",\"name\":\"Hiroshi Sugimoto - 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