{"id":428553,"date":"2026-05-06T16:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/428553\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T16:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:49:16","slug":"form-is-emptiness-at-singapore-art-museum-opens-may-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/428553\/","title":{"rendered":"Form Is Emptiness at Singapore Art Museum Opens May 29"},"content":{"rendered":"

Come stare into the void just for a bit at Singapore Art Museum\u2019s upcoming show, Hiroshi Sugimoto: Form Is Emptiness, running from May 29, 2026 to October 4, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is Hiroshi Sugimoto’s first major Southeast Asian exhibition, and it’s massive. We\u2019re talking 63 works drawn from 11 series across photography, sculpture, installation and architecture, plus 14 fossils from the artist\u2019s personal collection. Spanning five decades, the show maps out a career built on one slightly unnerving question: what exactly are we looking at when we look at anything?<\/p>\n

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\nPhotograph: Hiroshi SugimotoHiroshi Sugimoto <\/p>\n

Born in Tokyo in 1948, Sugimoto \u2013 artist, photographer, architect \u2013 studied at Rikkyo University before heading to the Art Centre College of Design in the 1970s. Today, he splits his time between Tokyo and New York, maintaining a practice that extends far beyond the gallery wall \u2013 into writing, calligraphy, garden design, culinary arts, and even directing and producing in the performing arts. If there\u2019s one thing you\u2019ll recognise him for, it\u2019s his iconic photographic series, particularly his seascapes \u2013 pared-down, meditative images that distil the horizon into a near-abstract plane \u2013 and Theatres, in which entire films are captured in a single long exposure, rendering the screen as a luminous field of light.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nPhotograph: Hiroshi SugimotoInstallation view of Hiroshi Sugimoto\u2019s \u2018U.A. Walker, New York\u2019 (1978) <\/p>\n

Walking around the exhibition is also art in itself. Sugimoto designed the exhibition himself as a mandala \u2013 a circular, cosmological diagram. So, instead of marching through it, you drift. Paths split, loop, reconnect. There\u2019s no prescribed route, no \u201ccorrect\u201d way to see it. The mandala structure also quietly mirrors the Buddhist concept of the Five Elements \u2013 Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, and Void \u2013 with five interlinked sections that flow into one another.<\/p>\n

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\nPhotograph: Hiroshi SugimotoInstallation view of Hiroshi Sugimoto\u2019s \u2018Brush Impression, Heart Sutra\u2019 (2023) <\/p>\n

Admission ranges from $20 (standard adults), $15 (standard concessions and local adults), and $10 (local senior concessions and NSFs), inclusive of booking fees, while children aged 6 and below enter free.<\/p>\n

Find out more and get your tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nPhotograph: Hiroshi SugimotoHiroshi Sugimoto\u2019s \u2018Tyrrhenian Sea, Scilla\u2019 (1993) <\/p>\n

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Form Is Emptiness runs from May 29, 2026 to October 4, 2026 at SAM \u2013 Tanjong Pagar Distripark\u2019s Gallery 1 and The Engine Room, open from 10am to 7pm daily.<\/p>\n

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