“Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.” Wassily Kandinsky
Baltic Sea, near Rügen by Hiroshi Sugimoto (1996)
“Since 1980 Sugimoto has travelled to remote seaside cliffs around the world to make the mesmerizing minimal images in this series. Avoiding dramatic weather and human incident, he focused instead on the meeting of sea and sky. This featureless, iconic definition of his subject leads the viewer to attend to the delicately elusive qualities of windswept water, shredding mists, and luminous haze that are specific to each locale. Circling the globe, suffused by countless different atmospheres, the horizon appears and dissapears: a razor, a mirage, a dancing, undetectable presence. Out of the many views there emerges a larger unity, a poetic expression of the primal that hovers tantalizingly before and beyond the present, suspended in timeless continuity with the world’s first day.”
