Sea of Buddha (Special Edition), 1997
Hiroshi Sugimoto   Master Artists

Design : object · 24 x 16 x 5 cm 9.4 x 6.3 x 2 inch

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Design : numbered and limited to 1000 copies

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The 48 photographs of the 1000 Kannon Bodhisattvas sculpted in the 12th and 13th centuries and housed in the temple of Sanju San-gen-do, Kyoto, are printed in an edition of 1000 numbered copies. The complete edition represents 1 million Bodhisattvas.

48 black and white photographs, title pages and impressum folded into a Leporello (accordion style) and attached to 2 polished aluminium cover plates, contained in a silk-covered slipcase. 

Edited by Atsuko Koyanagi
Design by Takaaki Matsumoto.

Sonnabend Sundell Editions

“The New York art scene in the 1970s was dominated by minimal and conceptual art, experiments in visualizing abstract concepts. It occurred to me that similar motives inspired the making of art in twelfth-century Japan. In a Kyoto temple, there is an eight-hundred-years old installation of a thousand-and- one Senju Kanon, the 'Thousand-Armed Merciful Bodhisattava Avalokitesvara' figure, which is a three-dimensional representation of the Buddhist afterlife, the Pure Land Western Paradise. After seven years of red tape, I was finally granted permission to photograph in the temple of Sanjusangendo, the Hall of Thirty-Three Bays. In special preparation for the shoot, I had all late-medieval and early-modern embellishments removed, and the contemporary fluorescent lighting was turned off. Stripping the temple of these additions re-created the splendor of the thousand bodhisattvas glistening in the light of the sun rising over the Higashiyama Hills, perhaps as the Kyoto aristocracy of the Heian period (794-1185) might have seen them. Will today's conceptual art survive another eight-hundred years?" —the artist

Black and white

Buddha

Buddhism

Japan

Spirituality

Grey

Japan  • 1948
56 followers

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Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto lives and works between Tokyo and New York. He studied art at Saint Paul University, Tokyo before joining the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. He later settled down in New York by 1974. 

Hiroshi Sugimoto is interested in the representation of time, of our senses, and our conscience. Through his art, he questions the relationship between human beings and reality. His work has been presented in several public collections including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and London's National Gallery and Tate Modern.

This multidisciplinary artist not only does photography but also makes sculptures, installations, and is interested in architecture. He creates works by successfully combining Asian and Western culture.

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