Lisson Gallery is pleased to announce a new presentation by the multi-disciplinary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, marking his first show in Los Angeles in a decade. At the heart of the presentation lies the American debut of Brush Impression, Heart Sutra (2023). Presented on a large-scale, curved wall, Sugimoto arranges 288 unique gelatin prints of Kanji characters in order of the Heart Sutra, a fundamental scripture of East Asian Buddhism. Seven of the artist's _Sea of Buddha _photographs will hang on surrounding walls, six individual photographs and one triptych, each capturing a grouping of individually unique buddha statues from a revered ancient shrine in Kyoto. The series of works will transport viewers back centuries, offering a vision of the Buddhas as the monks themselves would have seen them, bathed in the early morning light.
Through photography, sculpture, architecture and performance, Hiroshi Sugimoto manipulates the inexorable march of time and the vast mysteries of space, stalling the clock in order to create monumental forms from historically significant or fleetingly poetic moments. By approaching the artificial with an eye for the natural, in his realistic photographs of museum dioramas or waxworks, and vice versa, in his images of buildings or interiors that seem to melt all that is solid, Sugimoto proves his mastery as one of the world's greatest artists and innovators of lens-based media. This concept-driven approach begins with the ideation of an image and is only completed upon the work's execution, usually employing a large-format camera as his primary tool.
Established in 1967 in London, Lisson Gallery is one of the most well-known galleries operating globally. Boasting an influential and continuing legacy, including playing a pivotal role in the careers of many pioneers of historically important art movements, the gallery works with some of the most significant contemporary artists today.
