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Japan Society celebrates 110th anniversary with major Hiroshi Sugimoto show

The Japanese photographer and architect has also been commissioned to beautify the museum

By Helen Stoilas
6 May 2017
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To celebrate its 110th anniversary, the Japan Society will stage a major exhibition of works by the Japanese photographer and architect Hiroshi Sugimoto (20 October-7 January 2018). It includes a new series based on the tour of four Japanese Catholic-convert boys to Europe in 1585. Sugimoto first learned of the story while in Italy photographing theatres for an ongoing series. “When I discovered a mural of four boys at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, I felt as though they discovered me,” Sugimoto says. He decided to trace their journey, capturing images from their stops in cities such as Pisa, Rome and Assisi. “It felt as though I was guided by them.”

In November, Sugimoto will unveil a new Noh play at the Japan Society. He is also updating the museum’s building as part of his newly founded architecture practice. “[I am] not only making beautiful shows in museums, but I also make [the] museum itself beautiful.”

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