2021.5
Special Exhibition Hiroshi Sugimoto: Every Day is a Stormy Day
Contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto created fusuma sliding doors and kakejiku hanging scrolls at the main hall of Ryosoku-in temple.
This project is created as part of the RYOSOKU activities at Ryosoku-in, which WATER AND ART is planning and collaborating on and has been making practical attempts to connect the activities of the temple to the next generation since 2018.
For more information, please visit the following link https://www.ryosoku.com/hiroshisugimoto
Exhibition: November 1 - 14, 2021
Venue: Ryosoku-in
Organizer: RYOSOKU (Ryosoku-in)
Cooperation: Odawara Art Foundation, Hiroshi Sugimoto Studio
Mounting (fusuma sliding doors and kakejiku hanging scrolls): Fujita Gasōdō
Karakami paper: Kamisoe
Planning:WATER AND ART
East side
“Lightning Fields,” eight fusuma sliding doors, 2021
Technique: Pigment print
Material: Japanese paper (Awagami inkjet paper), pigment ink
Total external size: approx. H1.5–1.8 × W~ 7 m
West side
Material: Handmade torinoko paper, sumi mica on light gray
Total external size: approx. H1.5–1.8 × W~ 7 m
Kakejiku hanging scrolls:
Every Day is a Stormy Day
Every Day is Excuse Day
External size: H181 × W58 cm
Material: Ink on Japanese paper
©️Hiroshi Sugimoto/ Courtesy of RYOSOKU photo: Masatomo Moriyama