Lightning Fields 119, HIROSHI SUGIMOTO (B. 1948)

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO (B. 1948)
Lightning Fields 119
signed 'Sugimoto' (on the mount); blindstamped '7/25 10.110' (lower right)
gelatin silver print
23¾ x 19 3/8 in. (60.3 x 49.2 cm.)
Executed in 2009. This work is number seven from an edition of twenty-five.

Provenance
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature
L. Schaaf, M. Shimizu and W. G. F. Talbot, eds., Hikari no jinen: Nature of Light, Shizuoka, 2009, p. 101 (another example illustrated).

Exhibited
San Francisco, Fraenkel Gallery, Hiroshi Sugimoto: Lightning Fields, September-October 2009.

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One of the world's leading artists, Hiroshi Sugimoto has won international acclaim for his photographs that explore profound themes of space, nature, time and culture, distilling these complexities into a single arresting image. Lightning Fields 119, 2009 is a captivating work from his recent Electricity series in which he has moved his focus from sea to sky. To create these magnificent images, he employs a Van de Graaff generator to propel 400,000 volts through film to a metal table. Of these works, Sugimoto said, "I see the spark of life itself, the lightning that struck the primordial ooze."