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Go'o Shrine
Artist Hiroshi Sugimoto restored the main building and designed a new front structure at this Edo period shrine. An optical glass staircase links the main building to an underground stone chamber, uniting heaven and earth. Aesthetically, the main and front structures draw on the architectural style of early shrines (such as the Grand Shrine of Ise) while reflecting the artist's own sensibilities.
| Works |
Hiroshi Sugimoto Appropriate Proportion , 2002 |
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| Architecture |
Design: Hiroshi Sugimoto Design collaboration: Masaru Kimura, Toshio Shitara (Art Station) |
- Hiroshi Sugimoto
- Born in Tokyo, 1948. Major exhibitions include Sugimoto (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), Hiroshi Sugimoto (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo), and traveling exhibits at other sites from 1995 to 1998, as well as History of History (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa), which was also presented at the National Museum of Art, Osaka in 2008 and 2009. At Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Mr. Sugimoto has contributed to Out of Bounds: Contemporary Art in Seascape (1994, Tokyo), Standard (2001), and Naoshima Standard 2 (2006-2007).
