Piet Mondrian
Artist
Hiroshi Sugimoto
(Japanese, born 1948)
Date1999
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 58 3/4 x 47 inches (149.23 x 119.38 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.5030
On View
Not on viewCollections
Terms
Constructed Realities. Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO, April 5 – May 25, 2002, no cat.
In the Public Eye: Photography and Fame. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 8 - June 15, 2008, no cat.
"If this photograph now appears lifelike to you, you should reconsider what it means to be alive here and now," said photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto of his waxwork portraits. In this dramatically lit photograph, a "lifelike" wax statue of the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian looms from the darkness with unnerving intensity. Sugimoto’s photographic reimagining of this wax replica questions our methods for understanding the humanity of historic figures and history itself.
Copyright© Hiroshi Sugimoto
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