拍品專文
Les Mechanical Forms font partie de la série Conceptual Forms, et répondent à l’intérêt que Sugimoto porte aux sciences, à la géométrie et à la mécanique. Les objets photographiés sont des pièces mécaniques, des régulateurs, des disques tournants, des pignons intérieurs, des objets conservés dans les collections de l’Université de Tokyo qui devaient servir aux étudiants pour comprendre les mouvements complexes des engins mécaniques. Comme dans les Mathematical forms, Sugimoto rend hommage à l’oeuvre de Duchamp car, à l’instar des ‘célibataires’ du Grand Verre, ces mécanismes qu’il immortalise ne produisent rien; l’objet perd sa valeur d’usage et la représentation en noir et blanc transforme l’objet en forme pure de contemplation.
Les Mechanical Forms subissent donc une sublimation du statut d’outil au statut d’objet de contemplation pure.
The Mechanical Forms are part of the Conceptual Forms series and speak to Sugimoto’s interest in science, geometry and mechanics. The objects photographed are mechanical parts, regulators, rotating discs, internal cogs. These objects, now held in the collections of the University of Tokyo, formerly helped students to understand the complex movements of mechanical engines. As with Mathematical Forms, Sugimoto pays homage to the work of Duchamp; like the “bachelors” of the Grand Verre, the mechanisms he immortalises do not produce anything, the object has no utility value, and its representation in black and white transforms it into a pure form for contemplation.
The Mechanical Forms thus undergo a transformation from the status of tool to the status of purely contemplative object.
Les Mechanical Forms subissent donc une sublimation du statut d’outil au statut d’objet de contemplation pure.
The Mechanical Forms are part of the Conceptual Forms series and speak to Sugimoto’s interest in science, geometry and mechanics. The objects photographed are mechanical parts, regulators, rotating discs, internal cogs. These objects, now held in the collections of the University of Tokyo, formerly helped students to understand the complex movements of mechanical engines. As with Mathematical Forms, Sugimoto pays homage to the work of Duchamp; like the “bachelors” of the Grand Verre, the mechanisms he immortalises do not produce anything, the object has no utility value, and its representation in black and white transforms it into a pure form for contemplation.
The Mechanical Forms thus undergo a transformation from the status of tool to the status of purely contemplative object.