Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Masterpiece: The Enoura Observatory of the Odawara Art Foundation
The site is a hilly area covered with citrus trees in Enoura, in the Kataura district of Odawara, adjacent to Prefectural Route 740. Nestled against the outer rim of the Hakone Mountains and overlooking Sagami Bay, it has panoramic views extending to the Boso Peninsula and Oshima Island. The facility was envisioned by contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto as a forum for disseminating art and culture both within Japan and to the world, and will comprise a gallery space, a noh stage, the revived Tensho-an tea ceremony room, the restored Muromachi Period (c. 1338-1573) Meigetsu Gate, a strolling garden, and offices.
From the early modern period onward, the Itabashi district and other areas of Odawara were home to groups of artisans with mastery of sophisticated techniques, which have been handed down continuously until the present day. The Enoura Complex will be constructed using these techniques and methods, which are growing increasingly difficult to preserve, and will feature a range of architectural styles from medieval to contemporary.
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Kelsey Lu at Enoura Observatory in Japan
小田原文化財団 江之浦測候所にて5月26日に開催された、LA拠点のアヴァン・チェリストでありボーカリスト/プロデューサーのケルシー・ルーによるライブパフォーマンスのアフタームービーが公開。
映像には、当日のパフォーマンスの様子のほか、会場である江之浦測候所の景観、ルーによる即興ダンスパフォーマンスが収録されています。
映像制作は、今回のこの興行をも担当したプロダクションNIONが制作。
映像の監督には、NIONの関根光才、エグゼクティブプロデューサーには仕掛け人でもある守屋貴行が担当した。
限定100名に向け一夜限り、「小田原文化財団 江之浦測候所」にてLA拠点のアヴァン・チェリストでありボーカリスト/プロデューサーのケルシー・ルー によるライブパフォーマンスが開催された。
Solange、Blood OrangeからOPNまで、数々のアーティストからラヴコールを受けるケルシー・ルーと江之浦測候所が生み出した圧巻の一夜。
現代美術作家・杉本博司によって設立された同施設は、杉本氏が「自らの集大成となる作品」と表現する、同氏の記憶や意識の原点を辿り集約させた場所。ケルシー・ルーも同じく、自身の記憶である過去や感情を自己との対話を通して音楽に昇華させる。
強い生命力を放ち前進し続ける両者の表現が、日没の50分間だけにあらわれる海景と共鳴し合う。
江之浦測候所でのケルシー・ルー招致の企画を担当したBLISS/NIONがプロデュースする総合アートへの理念に賛同し協賛を決めたアカツキ。
エンタメプロデュースとデジタル&リアルの体験設計を得意とする「エクスペリエンスデザインカンパニー」として、「人の心を動かす」をテーマに幅広い領域に進出し注目を集めている。今後もそのビジョン実現への 旅を共に歩むアーティスト、クリエイター、プロジェクト、団体とのコラボレーションや支援を今後も積極的に行なって いく予定。
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Aftermovie of the live performance by LA-based avant-cellist and vocalist- Kelsey Lu, held at Odawara Art Foundation Enoura Observatory on May 26th.
This movie showcases the live performance as well as the view from the Enoura Observatory, and Lu's impromptu dance performance.
Aftermovie and performance both produced by NION, directed by Kosai Sekine (NION), and lastly, Takayuki Moriya (NION) was the executive producer of this all.
This exclusive, one-night-only live performance was held to a limited audience of 100 people.
Kelsey, having wooed Solange, Blood Orange, and OPN, performed an overwhelming show with the help of Enoura Observatory's astonishing view.
The venue built by contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, claims it is the culmination of his work. The root of his memories and conscience lead him to this location. Lu also communicates with her memories and past emotions and sublimates them into her music.
Their expressions both progressively emit strong vitality, which resonates with the seascape that is only visible for 50 minutes after sunset.
Akatsuki Inc., sponsored this event as they acknowledged BLISS and NION's philosophy of composite art. Akatsuki is an Experience Designing Company known for producing entertainment in digital and live experiences, with its vision of a Heart Driven World.
They continue to collaborate with and support artists, creators, projects, as well as organizations which will lead Akatsuki to realize their vision.
Kelsey Lu at Enoura Observatory in Japan
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Director : Kosai Sekine (NION Inc.)
Executive Producer : Takayuki Moriya (NION Inc.) / BLISS
Production Manager : Johnny Miyazato (NION Inc.)
DOP : Tetsuto Hirano
Second Cameraman : Tadashi Sato / Yoshinobu Nagamori
Lighting : Yuki Maeshima (YAR) / Akihisa Suzuki (M's Design)
Stylist : Michiko Kitamura
Hair & Make up : TORI.
1st AC : Tetsu Hiraoka
Sound : Kohji Fujita (HIRANYA ACCESS)
Editor : Tomoyuki Kujirai (NION Inc.)
Colorist : Toshiki Kamei (CUTTERS STUDIO)
Graphic Desinger : Sou Numata
Hiroshi Sugimoto Interview: Between Sea and Sky
Enjoy this visually stunning video featuring the legendary Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. He here describes the out-of-body experience he had when photographing the moon from a cliff, 100 meters above the sea, which later culminated in his ongoing ‘Seascape’ photographic series of the sea and its horizon.
“One day I simply turned it around. Suddenly it was no longer the view of the Moon from the Earth. It became a view of the Moon from a spaceship, hanging over the Earth.” If he turned around his photos of the moon and the sea, Sugimoto realized, he could gain a cosmic vision, and thus, in 1980, a new series was created in which he intentionally looks at his photos in a vertical way. When he creates his ‘Seascapes’, he always tries to capture air and water in equal halves, applying a constant method of always splitting the frame equally between sea and sky: “When you look up at outer space there’s the Moon and the stars. But on the surface of the Earth, the farthest place people can see is a sea horizon.” Moreover, Sugimoto argues that seascapes are also pivotal in that they are the only scenery that we, in our modern world, still share with the ancients: “Resources are limited, so inevitably they will run out… In order to face a failure likely to happen in the near future, we should see once again the seascapes that the ancients saw to revert us to our innocent minds. So my work hopefully gives us an opportunity to think before destroying ourselves.”
Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948) is a Japanese artist and photographer. Sugimoto is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (2001), the Praemium Imperiale Award for Painting (2009) and The Royal Photographic Society, Centenary Medal (2017). In 2006, he was the subject of a mid-career retrospective organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. Sugimoto has had solo exhibitions at prominent venues such as the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Osaka, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. His works are presently held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. and the Center for Contemporary Art in Kitakyushu in Japan. Sugimoto lives and works between New York City and Tokyo. For more see:
Hiroshi Sugimoto was interviewed at the Enoura Observatory in Odawara, Japan by Haruko Hoyle in June 2018.
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Architecture of Time: Enoura Observatory, Where Consciousness & Memory Originate
Architecture of Time: Enoura Observatory, Where Consciousness & Memory Originate
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Join exhibition artist Hiroshi Sugimoto for this introduction to Enoura Observatory, the headquarters of his Odawara Art Foundation, which received Japan Society grants in 2011 and 2014 and opened to the public this October. Over the past decade, Enoura Observatory has become a major focus of Sugimoto's practice. The campus includes capacious gallery and astronomical observation spaces, a tearoom and an outdoor Roman-inspired stone amphitheater with a glass stage. Sugimoto will also discuss his other recent architectural projects and their connection to his photographic practice and exhibitions, including Gates of Paradise.
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2nd last vid of my Japan trip. This time of an over night stay in hakone and a short stop to Odawara castle. Back in highschool, also went to Hakone with my Japanese class, and we stayed close to the river, but this time, our Airbnb much more high up near the mountains, so the there were a lot of hills to climb, but the view was amazing, and I'm glad I get to stay at a different side to where I've visited before. Anyway hope you guys enjoy the vid :p
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Hiroshi Sugimoto on “Gates of Paradise” - Part 1
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HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: GATES OF PARADISE
Artist Hiroshi Sugimoto previews selected works from his Japan Society Gallery exhibition, Hiroshi Sugimoto: Gates of Paradise, while discussing the historic journey from Japan to Europe that served as his inspiration.
Opening October 20, 2017
First Rotation: October 20—November 17, 2017
Second Rotation: November 21—January 7, 2018
This fall, explore one of the earliest, and largely unknown, encounters between Japan and the West in the 16th century, as seen through the eyes of artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. In celebration of Japan Society's 110th anniversary, Hiroshi Sugimoto: Gates of Paradise charts the story of four Japanese boys, who were swept up in the tide of religion, commerce and politics during the first Global Age and sent to the princely and papal courts of Europe. Journey in their footsteps through Sugimoto's new monumental photographs of the sites they visited, and navigate the germination of cultural exchange between East and West with classical masterpieces of visually hybrid (nanban) art from Japanese and American collections.
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Hiroshi Sugimoto Interview: Advice to the Young
“Before you try to become an artist I want you to go out to the world and learn about it.” In this video, the highly acclaimed Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto advises aspiring artists to expose themselves to many different jobs and experiences before venturing into art, which he feels requires “a profound experience in life.”
If you, after you’ve experienced many kinds of jobs, still desire to become an artist, then you should go for it. Sugimoto emphasizes that you don’t have to be an artist when you are in your teens or twenties, but can just as well start at the age of 70 or even 80: “It’s better for one to go on a journey, which can improve oneself, before trying to become an artist.” Referring to French artist Marcel Duchamp’s idea that all the greatest artist are bad people, Sugimoto also finds that people who become successful in the art world are often strange: “Because artists see the world in a way that a normal person wouldn’t. So if you think you are a good person, then you are not the artist type.”
Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948) is a Japanese artist and photographer. Sugimoto is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (2001), the Praemium Imperiale Award for Painting (2009) and The Royal Photographic Society, Centenary Medal (2017). In 2006, he was the subject of a mid-career retrospective organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. Sugimoto has had solo exhibitions at prominent venues such as the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Osaka, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. His works are presently held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. and the Center for Contemporary Art in Kitakyushu in Japan. Sugimoto lives and works between New York City and Tokyo. For more see:
Hiroshi Sugimoto was interviewed at the Enoura Observatory in Odawara, Japan by Haruko Hoyle in June 2018.
Camera: Yudai Maruyama
Edited by: Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: The Infinite and the Immeasurable
The Japanese photographer’s work spans decades and, rather than seeking to capture the magic of the decisive moment, aims to evoke ‘the infinite and the immeasurable’.
We visit the artist in Tokyo where he discusses his celebrated images of old American movie theatres — offered in our New York sale on 6 April — and shows us the first photographs he ever took when he was a 9-year-old trainspotter.
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‘The most advanced evolution of life is a human brain… that’s why I want to go back to the point where humans gained consciousness.’ Hiroshi Sugimoto is discussing his practice from his 7th-floor Tokyo apartment — a minimalist retreat high above the city, its rooms cut with streams of light.
‘I practice photography, architecture, performing arts — many things,’ Sugimoto explains. Today, however, it is his photographic works, which have become among his most renowned, that we are here to discuss. Working with a large-format camera, he often uses long exposures to capture scenes over an extended period of time.
The approach is one that has resulted in some of Sugimoto’s most famous works, such as the Theatres series, begun in 1978. To make these images of American movie theatres — using only the light from the screen — the artist matches the exposure to the film’s running time to distil a feature-length production into a single frame.
Sugimoto’s interest in photography began when he was a child — now aged 69, he still keeps the first album of photographs he made when he was just 9 years old, in 1957. With the trains in a Tokyo station as their subject, these early shots demonstrate a remarkable awareness of composition — indeed, only the height of the camera indicates that they were taken by a young boy.
One of his latest projects, the design for the Odawara Art Foundation, is set to open in Kanagawa in 2017. ‘Architecture is the most beautiful illusion that you can ever make,’ he observes. ‘The human presence may not be for ever, of course — look at Greek or Roman times, or an Egyptian Pyramid. In five or six thousand years, if people still remain, they’ll look at the ruins of modern civilisation.
‘A sense of time is a very important factor of early human consciousness,’ the artist continues. As Sugimoto becomes more distanced from that 9-year-old boy at the train station, his meditations on time take on a more personal tone. ‘I’m going backwards; people are going forwards,’ he muses. ‘The gap between me and the world is getting bigger and bigger. But I don’t care. I just do what I want to do.’
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Gates of Paradise – East-West “Nanban” Art
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HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: GATES OF PARADISE
First Rotation: October 20—November 17, 2017
Second Rotation: November 21—January 7, 2018
Yukie Kamiya, Director Japan Society Gallery, discusses three works from the exhibition Hiroshi Sugimoto: Gates of Paradise.
This fall, explore one of the earliest, and largely unknown, encounters between Japan and the West in the 16th century, as seen through the eyes of artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. In celebration of Japan Society's 110th anniversary, Hiroshi Sugimoto: Gates of Paradise charts the story of four Japanese boys, who were swept up in the tide of religion, commerce and politics during the first Global Age and sent to the princely and papal courts of Europe. Journey in their footsteps through Sugimoto's new monumental photographs of the sites they visited, and navigate the germination of cultural exchange between East and West with classical masterpieces of visually hybrid (nanban) art from Japanese and American collections.
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Parcours d’exposition aux Rencontres de la photographie, Arles
Le CNDP et les Rencontres d’Arles réalisent de nombreux projets en partenariat. Les films Parcours d’exposition viennent enrichir les outils que les deux partenaires ont la volonté de développer afin de contribuer à la formation sur l’éducation à la photographie et à l’image auprès des publics les plus divers.
La série Révolution témoigne dans son titre même de ce qu’est la photographie pour Hiroshi Sugimoto : un moyen de comprendre notre rapport au temps. La photographie représente aussi pour lui une tentative de rendre le rêve possible et de proposer une vision humaine du monde : elle est en ce sens une abstraction.
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BREATHING by Hiroshi Sugimoto starring Aurélie Dupont
Pour la 3e Scène de l’Opéra national de Paris, l’artiste contemporain Hiroshi Sugimoto invite à une expérience sensorielle et spirituelle, avec une nouvelle création filmée dans sa fondation d’art Odawara au Japon.
Au lever du soleil, sur le toit de verre de la fondation, Aurélie Dupont interprète le solo « Ekstasis », chorégraphié par Martha Graham et ré-imaginé par Virginie Mécène. Une danse suspendue, entre ciel et mer, où la performance évolue à mesure que le jour se lève.
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Contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto leads us into a sensorial and spiritual experience for the Paris Opera’s 3e Scène with a new creation filmed at his Odawara Art Foundation in Japan.
At daybreak, on the Foundation’s glass roof, Aurélie Dupont performs the dance solo « Ekstasis », choreographed by Martha Graham and re-imagined by Virginie Mécène. Dance suspended between sea and sky in which the performance evolves as the sun rises.
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In this short video excerpt Hiroshi Sugimoto talks about some aspects of his art. To preview the Parkett publication featuring his work with multiple texts and numerous color illustrations as well as to view his specially made edition for Parkett please go to
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Four Decades of Photographing Dioramas
The photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto has visited to the Museum four times in the past four decades to shoot his Dioramas series, which focuses on habitat displays to explore the distinction between the real and the fictive.
What initially surprised Sugimoto about the series was that his photos looked utterly real--as if he were photographing on location, and not in front of a three-dimensional representation of a real location. Part of this effect can be credited to Sugimoto's talent as a photographer, but the effect wouldn't be possible without the skill of the Museum's diorama artists, who blended science and nature to create the illusion of reality. Using the latest technology, they constructed the foreground, taxidermy, and painted background of a diorama to reflect that of the original site.
Not lost on Sugimoto is the fact that when Museum preparators made collecting trips to diorama sites, they documented the area with photographs, which they referred to when they went back to the Museum and brought the dioramas to life.
Now I'm re-photographing the diorama, based on the photography, the artist said. So many layers of transformation--that's very conceptually interesting.
During a 2012 shoot of the Olympic Forest diorama in the Hall of North American Forests, Sugimoto explained why he keeps coming back to the Museum.
I have my ideas and visions of what nature should look like. So I'm using this diorama to represent my idealistic visions of nature.
Known as Windows on Nature, the Museum's habitat dioramas are recognized internationally as premier examples of the fusion of art and science. The lifelike displays were created to educate the public about nature and science and also engender feelings of wonder for the natural world.
For his latest round of photographs, the artist used his trademark 8 x 10 large-format camera to explore the theme of lost nature, or what the earth would look like if human civilization vanished.
The first photographs from the Dioramas series, shot in 1976, brought Sugimoto to acclaim. Dioramas continues to gain an audience today with recent exhibitions at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Pace Gallery in New York.
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Japanese artist uses Palace of Versailles as inspiration
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Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto's portraits melt conceptions of reality.
His new exhibition at the Palace of Versailles plays on the theme of revolution, as it was the lavish home of King Louis XIV and his wife Marie-Antoinette who were executed during the French Revolution.
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The historic Palace of Versailles is hosting an exhibition of the multidisciplinary conceptual artist Hiroshi Sugimoto.
Sugimoto was born in Japan and moved to the United States in 1970.
The artist has used the gardens of the estate of Trianon as a canvas, blending art, architecture and permforance to play with perception.
The estate of Trianon provided refuges for the royal family away from the glare of courtly life in the main palace, including Marie Antoinette's hamlet, the Petit and Grand Trianons.
The problem is that Versailles is too big, it's huge and I studied previous nine shows and artists were struggling how to deal with the size of the scale says Sugimoto.
This the tenth anniversary of an exhibition of modern art taking centre stage in the lavish historic palace.
People (Artists that previously exhibited in the Chateau de Versailles) tried to make a huge scale art, try to fit into the space, but I decided not to do that. Instead, I want to present the smallest scale of the art and fit it into the grand scale of Versailles. So here we are, we have only 2 square metres cube floating on one of the ponds, so it's... it brings people's attention to the small point into the huge scale. That's kind of a negative thinking for me, as an artist, he adds.
It is here in the estate of Trianon that Sugimoto reimagines Versailles most infamous residents, King Louis XIV and his wife Marie-Antoinette, who lived here before the revolution of 1789 forced them to Paris.
It was at the Petit Trianon that Marie Antoinette spent the fateful day of Oct. 5, 1789. She was strolling in the gardens, taking refuge from the rain in a small grotto, when servants came with bad news: Revolutionary rioters were at Versailles' gates.
The queen spent that night at the main chateau, leaving the next day for Paris. The royal family never returned to Versailles, and Marie Antoinette died at the guillotine at age 37 in 1793.
The artist's large-format, black-and-white photos, are crisp, clear and larger than life. But most of Sugimoto's carefully posed subjects were dead, of course, long before the age of photography.
His basic premise is simple: He spent more than 30 years visiting and photographing the world's wax museums. Focusing on Madame Tussaud's in London, its branch in Amsterdam and a wax museum in Ito, Japan.
Sugimoto took three-quarter view photos, using 8-by-10-inch negatives, of the most realistic wax figures. They are typically taken against a black background.
His portrait of Louis XIV is based on a waxwork created by Antoine Benoist 10 years before the monarch's death.
My photography is the vehicle of the history, to think backwards, not forwards. So I decided to bring all my previously photographed wax-potted figures who has a record of visiting Versailles. Let's bring them back together to have a party. So this is the party of the spirits of Versailles, he says.
Jean de Loisy, President of the Palais de Tokyo and the Curator of the exhibition says the artist plays on the theme of revolution.
Sugimoto succeeds in melting perceptions of reality.
Sugimoto's exhibition at Versailles also celebrates 160 years of diplomacy between France and Japan.
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Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto was commissioned to transform the museum’s lobby, the first cohesive redesign of the iconic Gordon Bunshaft-designed building in the museum’s 42-year history.
Sugimoto (b. 1948, Tokyo) reimagined the Hirshhorn’s lobby as an immersive, functional artwork, giving visitors an entirely new community space for creative inspiration. His design was brought to life through his Tokyo-based architectural firm New Material Research Laboratory.
The redesign also includes the debut of Dolcezza Coffee & Gelato at Hirshhorn, the Museum’s first permanent coffee shop and the only locally owned café at the Smithsonian.