Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto (*1948, Tokyo) lives and works in New York and Tokyo. His
photographic works blur the distinctions between the real and the fictive.
Inspired by the dioramas of animals and people at New York's Museum of Natural
History, he has not stopped working on the intersection of vivid narrations and
dead objects ever since the beginning of his artistic career. Mostly by means
of black-and-white analogue photography, Sugimoto suggests a theatrical
narrative in every kind of fixed setting. His works have been on view at
internationally renowned institutions such as the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin,
the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Museum of Modern Art in
Los Angeles.