HIROSHI SUGIMOTO. GLASS TEA HOUSE MONDRIAN

Glass Tea House Mondrian is Sugimoto's first architectural work in Europe. He has built a pavilion of extraordinary beauty in a fo rmerly unused space on San Giorgio Island, Venice. The tea housea house on stilts and rocks, surrounded by water brings to mind th e many islands that make up Venice. After the tea ceremony, visitors exit the courtyard throughanother Japanese garden, in which Sug imoto has carefully placed found local architectural fragments. Like Sugimoto's photographs, this work conveys a meditative, almost religious atm...[Read more]