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Article: Hiroshi Sugimoto.
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- ArtUS
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- March 22, 2009
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Gagosian Gallery | New York, New York
What is properly sublime," Immanuel Kant explains in Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790), "cannot be contained in any sensible form, but concerns only ideas of reason, which, though no presentation adequate to them is possible, are provoked and called to mind precisely by this inadequacy, which does allow of sensible presentation." At Gagosian's 21st Street venue, Hiroshi Sugimoto's 14 black-and-white gelatin silver prints from his ongoing Seascapes series are set in two enormous rectangular rooms. In the front space, which is filled with natural and artificial light, images of seven daytime scenes are hung on one very ...