August 17, 2018 - October 28, 2018
Hiroshi Sugimoto's Time Exposed is a haunting portfolio of images that offer a primordial, nonlinear sense of time. The artist created these seascapes between 1980 and 1991, yet chose to use a large-format camera, long exposure, and 19th-century techniques.
Mediterranean Sea, La Ciotat (detail), 1989 tri-tone offset lithographic print Gift of John W. Adams and Alice Bee Kasakoff
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Mediterranean Sea, La Ciotat (detail), 1989
tri-tone offset lithographic print
Gift of John W. Adams and Alice Bee Kasakoff
CMA 1996.22.15
Transformed into a suite of 50 lithographs, these images capture vastly different bodies of water around the world in different conditions and at different times of day. Visually minimal, they represent wholeness, infinity, and the sublime beauty of quietude.
Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense of security, as if visiting my ancestral home; I embark on a voyage of seeing.
- Hiroshi Sugimoto