HIRSHI SUGIMOTO

The meticulous photographic practice of Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto (*1948 in Tokyo) is like that of a painters. Inspired both by Marcel Duchamps obsession with the mechanics of space and the mathematical foundations of his works and Man Rays photographs o f nineteenth-century mathematical models, Sugimoto photographed similar models at the University of Tokyo, creating starkly beautifu l images, printed larger than life to invoke monumental Greek sculpture or architecture.