MASTER OF ILLUSION
Through his photographs, Hiroshi Sugimoto, one of Japan’s most important contemporary artists, obscures and alters reality, blurring the boundaries between truth and illusion.
Following in the footsteps of artists such as Takashi Murakami, Jeff Koons, Bernar Venet and Anish Kapoor who’ve held showcases at Chateau de Versailles, Hiroshi exhibited his works there in a four-month-long solo show that ended recently in April.
He’s best known for his mysterious and highly technical black-and-white images fashioned through a combination of 19th-century large-format camera, signature long exposure and 20cm x 25cm negatives. Throughout his career, the Japanese artist – who splits his time between Tokyo and New York – has been striving to make visible the notion of eternity through his art.
