Hiroshi Sugimoto: Form Is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form

Lisson Gallery is pleased to announce a new presentation by the multi-disciplinary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, marking his first show in Los Angeles in a decade. At the heart of the presentation lies the American debut of Brush Impression, Heart Sutra (2023). Presented on a large-scale, curved wall, Sugimoto arranges 288 unique gelatin prints of Kanji characters in order of the Heart Sutra, a fundamental scripture of East Asian Buddhism. Seven of the artist’s Sea of Buddha photographs will hang on surrounding walls, six individual photographs and one triptych, each capturing a grouping of individually unique buddha statues from a revered ancient shrine in Kyoto. The series of works will transport viewers back centuries, offering a vision of the Buddhas as the monks themselves would have seen them, bathed in the early morning light.