inspiring artist

sometimes it's good to chat with friends about things happening out there...what people are interested in...what kind of work are out there....what people are thinking

had a short chat with a friend living in london about a lot of things, and we ended the conversation with 'what kind of artists do we admire?'

as i was walking home through the park last nite, i had trouble to find contemporary artists that inspire me. i am not the kind of audience who look for the deep meanings in all art works...sometimes it's the sensation / the aura that i can connect with his/her work ... most of the time these feelings arisen are very temporal and one-time deal...

but today, i have reconciled with a long lost connection with this artist - hiroshi sugimoto.
i remember that i had first encountered his work back in a gallery in Chelsea, NYC in 2001. His photographs are taken with such precision and isolation. i missed his work a lot and therefore i spent some time to do to re-visit his work. The work i saw back in Chelsea were his architectural series. But i loved his water/horizon series the most.

after all these years, his works still extract the feelings i had back then when i first encountered his work. H. Sugimoto is definitely one artist that i still admire very much.

'I try to never be satisfied; this way I will always be challenging my spirit.'
~quoted from H. Sugimoto



HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
Ligurian Sea, Saviore, 1993
Gelatin silver print
47 x 58 3/4 inches unframed (119.4 x 149.2 cm)
Ed. of 5

~courtesy of Gagosian Gallery

music of the day:
Dj Shadow - Entroducing