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Mitterand+Cramer/Fine Art: Hiroshi Sugimoto, “Gorilla” 2004,
Dioramas series
I first became aware of the Dioramas series via Modcult.
See more of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s dioramas on his officiel website. Artist’s statement:
“Upon first arriving in New York in 1974, I did the tourist thing. Eventually I visited the Natural History Museum, where I made a curious discovery: the stuffed animals positioned before painted backdrops looked utterly fake, yet by taking a quick peek with one eye closed, all perspective vanished, and suddenly they looked very real. I’d found a way to see the world as a camera does. However fake the subject, once photographed, it’s as good as real.”
PBS website has a page about Hiroshi Sugimoto offering multiple videos, interviews, bio, slideshow, etc. He was featured in the episode “memory” during the third season of PBS’s ongoing series Art In The Twenty-First Century. You can watch the whole episode online.
Previously on Skandalon