Glass Tea House Mondrian by Hiroshi Sugimoto
- Title
- Glass Tea House Mondrian by Hiroshi Sugimoto / editor: David Hrankovic.
- Published by
- Venice : Le Stanze del Vetro, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore ; Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, [2015], ©2015.
- Author
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- Description
- 159 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans; 25 cm
- Summary
- Although Hirosho Sugimoto is primarily known for his photography, his practice extends across a wide range of media, including sculpture, installation, and traditional forms of Japanese theater. Glass Tea House 'Mondrian' is Sugimoto's first architectural work in Europe. He has built a pavilion of extraordinary beauty in a formerly unused space on San Giorgio Island, Venice. The tea house - a house on stilts and rocks, surrounded by water - brings to mind the many islands that make up Venice. After the tea ceremony, visitors exit the courtyard through another Japanese garden, in which Sugimoto has carefully placed found local architectural fragments. Like Sugimoto's photographs, this work conveys a meditative, almost religious atmosphere: it is an oasis of calmness that invokes time and memory. Exhibition: Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy (06.06. - 30.11.2015).
- Alternative title
- Glass Tea House Mondrian : Hiroshi Sugimoto
- Subject
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Note
- Commissioned by Le Stanze del Vitro on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, June 6, 2014 - November 30, 2015.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.