Hiroshi Sugimoto "Leakage of Light"
at Gallery Koyanagi
in the Ginza, Shimbashi area
This event has ended - (2007-12-06 - 2008-01-12)
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Hiroshi Sugimoto “Leakage of Light” opens at Gallery Koyanagi
Hiroshi Sugimoto, one of Japan’s most internationally recognised photographers, displays works from his “Theater” series in a solo show at Gallery Koyanagi.
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john Sebben
2007-12-22
Well the mighty have fallen for the love of money. What is Sugimoto doing these days? Is he hard up for cash? I was hoping since i think he has a camera still that he went and added a few more theaters to his collection, but upon closer inspection i realized that these were just big prints of old negatives. Hmmm i thought then i enquired the price to be a whopping $350,000. Well congratulations for trying to get some of that money the collectors get from the auctions, but what are you doing? opening and re-opening sold out editions? Why not just make endless editions. I think he just needs money because he can sell any of his tchotckes to any corporate fund just on his name. I sincerely hope that he takes his money form this artwork- and goes into reclusion and re-thinks his world. He used to be really interesting but now it is trotting out the old works bigger and costlier and his other things are getting to be product shots. Cant he criticize himself? has he lost his marbles.
What was that silly box; the glass beads of time?
john Sebben
2007-12-23
P.S. try crossing the street and bridge and going to the gallery behind the Bridgestone Buildign Zeit has a satisfying exhibition of Toshio Shibata. Hurry along. the name is not quite as big but the work is more consistently engaging and trying to grow.
kotosa motohashi
2007-12-23
I went to both sugimoto and shibata’s show.
I saw this theater work of sugimoto several times and indeed this time he make them just bigger than before. In this point this show was boring though I like his theater series.
Shibata’s show was quite interesting. Comparing to his previous black and white, this color new work is not so strong yet, but he tries to something new and exploring. That’s quite interesting point.