I have no problem with the wax figure issue, neither does the Guggenheim for that matter. The following is from a press release from 2001 a new show of Hiroshi Sugimotos wax portraits.
Sugimoto: Portraits, an exhibition of a new series of photographs by the renowned Japanese artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto, will open at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo on July 26, 2001. Commissioned by the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin and exhibited there last year, Sugimotos Portraits series marks a new direction in the artists work.
In Sugimotos Portraits, the artist has returned to the wax figures he first explored in his Dioramas series. Unlike his earlier depictions of dioramic displays found in natural history museums and tableaux of famous persons in wax museums, these images are life-size, black-and-white portraits of historical figures and contemporary personalities, such as Henry VIII, Napoleon Bonaparte, Voltaire, and Princess Diana. Working in a scale entirely new to his oeuvre, Sugimoto isolated the wax effigies from the staged vignettes in Madame Tussauds London Waxworks, posed them in three-quarter length view, and lit them against black backdrops so as to create haunting portraits. His painterly renditions are lush with details and recall the works of Hans Holbein, Anthony van Dyck, and Jacques Louis David, from which many of the wax figures were originally drawn.
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I have no problem with the wax figure issue, neither does the Guggenheim for that matter. The following is from a press release from 2001 a new show of Hiroshi Sugimotos wax portraits.
Sugimoto: Portraits, an exhibition of a new series of photographs by the renowned Japanese artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto, will open at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo on July 26, 2001. Commissioned by the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin and exhibited there last year, Sugimotos Portraits series marks a new direction in the artists work.
In Sugimotos Portraits, the artist has returned to the wax figures he first explored in his Dioramas series. Unlike his earlier depictions of dioramic displays found in natural history museums and tableaux of famous persons in wax museums, these images are life-size, black-and-white portraits of historical figures and contemporary personalities, such as Henry VIII, Napoleon Bonaparte, Voltaire, and Princess Diana. Working in a scale entirely new to his oeuvre, Sugimoto isolated the wax effigies from the staged vignettes in Madame Tussauds London Waxworks, posed them in three-quarter length view, and lit them against black backdrops so as to create haunting portraits. His painterly renditions are lush with details and recall the works of Hans Holbein, Anthony van Dyck, and Jacques Louis David, from which many of the wax figures were originally drawn.
this is the link....
http://www.guggenheim.org/cgi/index.pl?http://shop.store.yahoo.com/guggenheim/sugpor.html