What a rare treat to see and hear Sugimoto at the Guggenheim last week. He is so thoughtful, reverent. Everything is so precise and exacting. From his early seascapes to the mathematical forms, there is so much integrity along with experimentation. Not without a sense of humor, he showed a couple of self-portraits circa 1972 complete with hippy/shaggy hair and a can of Budweiser. I remember reading an interview with him in W magazine several years ago where he certainly didn't deny experimenting with psychedelics. I also seem to remember him saying he owned a VW campervan at one point...
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Well it seems that a lot great works of art come out of two things: drugs or genius. Sugimoto may have been able to combine both but not going overboard in either direction, e.g. making it accessible to the layman, and not a psychodelic documentary... although I do wonder if maybe it is just that.
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