A New Hiroshi Sugimoto Sculpture in San Francisco Reaches for In?nity

一個(gè)新的杉本博司雕塑在舊金山達(dá)到無(wú)限

His sliver of an artwork, “Point of Infinity,” marks the start of the city’s Treasure Island Art Program.

他的作品《無(wú)限之點(diǎn)》標(biāo)志著這座城市金銀島藝術(shù)計(jì)劃的開(kāi)始

By Jori Finkel

作者：約里·豐克爾

Reporting from San Francisco

舊金山報(bào)道

June 9, 2023

2023年6月9日

      The San Francisco skyline has radically changed over the past two decades because of all the real estate development. It’s changing again now, but subtly, because of an artwork. The Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, famous for his slyly deceptive photography, has just planted a slender, 69-foot-tall stainless steel sculpture on a hilltop in Yerba Buena Island, meant to serve as an anchor — or beacon, given its height — for the area’s new public art program.

     由于房地產(chǎn)開(kāi)發(fā)，舊金山的天際線在過(guò)去二十年里發(fā)生了根本性的變化。現(xiàn)在，它又在發(fā)生變化，但微妙地是因?yàn)橐患囆g(shù)品。日本藝術(shù)家杉本博以其狡猾的欺騙性攝影而聞名，他剛剛在芳草地島的山頂上種植了一個(gè)細(xì)長(zhǎng)的、69英尺高的不銹鋼雕塑，考慮到它的高度，它的目的是作為該地區(qū)新公共藝術(shù)項(xiàng)目的錨或者燈塔了。

      From some viewpoints it looks like the tip of a sewing needle poking out above the trees and cellular towers of this island in the San Francisco Bay. From others it seems an elegant high-tech cousin of the Transamerica Pyramid, the chunkier building across the bay. Because of its particular curved geometry, which tapers from a concrete base of 23 feet to a top that is less than one inch in diameter, the sculpture looks as if it’s growing infinitely smaller and taller as it reaches for Earth’s outer atmosphere.

     從某些角度看，它就像一根針尖從圣朗西斯科灣島上的樹(shù)木和蜂窩塔上伸出來(lái)。從另一些人的角度來(lái)看，它似乎是橫海灣的泛美金字塔的優(yōu)難的高科技表兄弟。因?yàn)樗厥獾膹澢鷰缀涡螤?，?3英尺的混凝土基座逐漸變細(xì)，頂部直徑不到一英寸，這個(gè)雕塑看起來(lái)好像越來(lái)越小，越來(lái)越高，因?yàn)樗竭_(dá)了地球的外層大氣層。
      The artist paradoxically calls his skyscraper 揚(yáng)oint of Infinity,? and, even more than the beautiful sliver of mirror-finished stainless steel itself, he hopes to showcase that Zen koan-like notion. “The infinity point, where two curved lines are supposed to meet, only exists in the human mind; it’s a creation of human consciousness,” said Sugimoto, 75, who called the sculpture “beyond expectation” on Monday during his first visit to it on site. “I wished to make it reach all the way to infinity, but that’s technically impossible,” he added, laughing at himself, his habit even or especially when making gnomic pronouncements.這位藝術(shù)家自         相矛盾地稱他的摩天大樓為“無(wú)限點(diǎn)”，甚至比鏡面拋光的不銹鋼本身更美麗，他希望展示禪宗公證般的概念。75歲的杉本說(shuō):“兩條曲線交匯的無(wú)限大點(diǎn)只存在于人類的思想中:它是人類意識(shí)的產(chǎn)物。"周一，他剛開(kāi)始到現(xiàn)場(chǎng)參觀這座雕塑時(shí)，稱它“出乎意料”?！拔蚁Ｍ芤恢毖由斓綗o(wú)限大，但從技術(shù)上講，這是不可能的，”他補(bǔ)道，一邊自嘲，甚至一邊嘲笑自己的習(xí)慣，尤其是在發(fā)表格言的時(shí)候.

      杉本博司，外文名Hiroshi Sugimoto，日本人，出生在東京，從小接受西方油畫(huà)的藝術(shù)教育，在美國(guó)留學(xué)畢業(yè)，經(jīng)過(guò)學(xué)習(xí)研究，成為知名攝影師，藝術(shù)家，被譽(yù)為「z后的現(xiàn)代主義者」。

      他的創(chuàng)作將東西方史學(xué)、哲學(xué)和美學(xué)帶入攝影，并將攝影作品提升至藝術(shù)品層次。除攝影創(chuàng)作，他還經(jīng)手室內(nèi)設(shè)計(jì)、能劇舞臺(tái)、神社等建筑工作。

      The sculpture also serves a more practical or political purpose, marking Yerba Buena Island and the adjoining Treasure Island, a naval base from 1942 to 1997, as a new cultural destination. With a budget of $2 million, 揚(yáng)oint of Infinity? is the first major artwork developed under the Treasure Island Art Program, run by the San Francisco Arts Commission and funded by a 搊ne percent? program, which takes a cut of construction costs from new development on the islands.

      這座雕塑還有一個(gè)更實(shí)際或者更政治的目的，標(biāo)志著芳草地島和毗鄰的金銀島（1942年至1997年間的海軍基地）成為一個(gè)新的文化目的地?！盁o(wú)限點(diǎn)”的預(yù)算為200萬(wàn)美元，是金銀島藝術(shù)計(jì)劃下創(chuàng)作的重要藝術(shù)品。該計(jì)劃由舊金山藝術(shù)委員會(huì)運(yùn)營(yíng)，由“1%”計(jì)劃資助，該計(jì)劃從島上

      The Treasure Island Development Authority plans to create 8,000 housing units, with 27 percent of them to be deemed affordable. Roughly 75 percent of the 400-acre site is designated as public space, making it “the city’s biggest allotment of public, open space since the creation of Golden Gate Park,” said Jill Manton, who directs the Treasure Island Art Program, describing parks, walkways and plazas where they can site public art.

      金銀島發(fā)展局計(jì)劃建造8000套住房，其中27%被視為經(jīng)濟(jì)適用房。金銀島藝術(shù)計(jì)劃的負(fù)責(zé)人吉爾·曼頓說(shuō)，在這個(gè)400英畝的場(chǎng)地中，大約有75%被指定為公共空間，這使它成為“金門(mén)公園建成以來(lái)，紐約市頭等公共開(kāi)放空間”。她描述了可以放置公共藝術(shù)的公園、人行道和廣場(chǎng)。

      She said the program’s overall budget for art could exceed $50 million “if everything progresses as planned” but acknowledged volatility in the real estate market. The three developers involved in the project also recently sued each other.

      她說(shuō)，“如果一切按計(jì)劃進(jìn)行”，金銀島藝術(shù)項(xiàng)目的總預(yù)算可能會(huì)超過(guò)5000萬(wàn)美元，但她也承認(rèn)房地產(chǎn)市場(chǎng)存在波動(dòng)。參與該項(xiàng)目的三家開(kāi)發(fā)商z近還互相起訴。

      The art planning process has not been smooth either. Sugimoto’s work on the project began in 2017 after the city issued an open call for artists. By the end of that year, he was selected by a committee as one of seven finalists (out of a pool of 495 applicants) to develop proposals for three sites. Two finalists, Pae White and Antony Gormley, also made it to the next stage and revamped their plans, only to have them nixed in the end, Manton said, 搊ver aesthetic concerns.” She recently enlisted Kehinde Wiley instead to submit a proposal for one of those sites, a major waterfront plaza.

     杉本博的新雕塑在舊金山延伸到無(wú)限-紐約時(shí)報(bào)藝術(shù)策劃過(guò)程也不順利。杉本在這個(gè)項(xiàng)目上的工作始于2017年，當(dāng)時(shí)該市公開(kāi)征集藝術(shù)家。到那一年年底，他被一個(gè)委員會(huì)選為七名決選手一（(從495名申請(qǐng)者中)，為三個(gè)地點(diǎn)制定方案，兩名決賽選手，佩伊·懷特和安東尼·戈姆利，也進(jìn)入了下一階段，并修改了他們的計(jì)劃，但z終被否決了，曼頓說(shuō)，"出于審美考慮”。z近，她轉(zhuǎn)而請(qǐng)凱欣德·威利Kehindewiley)為其中一個(gè)主要的海濱廣場(chǎng)提交了一份方案。

      From some vantage points the sculpture looks like an elegant, high-tech cousin to the chunkier Transamerica Pyramid across the bay.

Jessica Chou for The New York Times

      從某些有利的角度看，這座雕塑就像是海灣對(duì)面的泛美金字塔的一個(gè)優(yōu)雅、高科技的表親。

杰西卡·周(Jessica Chou)，《紐約時(shí)報(bào)》

“With Antony and Pae, they were selected and asked to redesign. With Sugimoto, we wanted the sculpture exactly as proposed,” she said. “It’s so simple and elegant. It’s a very conceptual work but I think will appeal on many different levels, whether you know anything about art or not.”

      “與安東尼和佩伊一起，他們被選中并要求重新設(shè)計(jì)。對(duì)于杉本，我們想要的雕塑完全符合提議，"她說(shuō)。“它既簡(jiǎn)單又優(yōu)雅。這是一個(gè)非常概念化的作品，但我認(rèn)為它會(huì)在很多不同的層面上吸引人，不管你是否懂藝術(shù)。"

      As a photographer, Sugimoto came to prominence by making images that are both highly persuasive and strangely self-effacing. His rugged wildlife scenes capturing close-ups of polar bears or African antelope turn out to be dioramas he shot at the American Museum of Natural History. His pictures of brilliant white screens in ornate movie palaces actually come from photographing with one long exposure the entirety of a film as it plays. His photograph of Queen Elizabeth I, pure historical fiction, is really a portrait of her wax sculpture at Madame Tussauds.

      作為一名攝影師，杉本通過(guò)拍攝極具說(shuō)服力和奇怪的謙遜的照片而出名。他拍攝的那些相獷的野生動(dòng)物場(chǎng)號(hào)，捕捉到北極能或非洲羚羊的特寫(xiě)鏡頭，原來(lái)是他在美國(guó)自然歷史博物館拍攝的立體模型。他在華麗的電影宮里拍攝的明亮的白色屏幕的照片實(shí)際上來(lái)自于一次長(zhǎng)時(shí)間曝光拍攝電影放映時(shí)的整個(gè)畫(huà)面。他拍攝的伊麗莎白女王一世，純屬歷史虛構(gòu)，其實(shí)是她在杜莎夫人蠟像館的蠟像肖像。

      With “Point of Infinity,” too, he says he’s interested in the play of presence and absence, or “the presence of immateriality” suggested by its hyperbolic geometry. He was immediately drawn to this geometry in 2003 when he saw a small, 19th-century mathematical model in a classroom at Tokyo University, designed to illustrate “a surface of revolution with a constant negative curvature,” also known as a pseudosphere.

      對(duì)于《無(wú)限點(diǎn)》也是如此，他說(shuō)他對(duì)在場(chǎng)與不在場(chǎng)的玩法很感興趣，或者是它的雙曲幾何所暗示的“非物質(zhì)性的在場(chǎng)”。2003年，當(dāng)他在東京大學(xué)的教室里看到一個(gè)19世紀(jì)的小數(shù)學(xué)模型時(shí)，他立即被這種幾何結(jié)構(gòu)所吸引，這個(gè)模型旨在說(shuō)明“具有恒定負(fù)曲率的旋轉(zhuǎn)曲面”，也被稱為偽球。

      He soon photographed that plaster model. But the surface was rough, its tip was broken, and he thought he could do better “using the very highest Japanese accuracy.” He has since made a handful of high-precision sculptures in different sizes, with the same formula, branching into sculpture around the same time he started an architectural practice. One recent hyperbolic form, 揝undial? in Tokyo, reaches nearly 40 feet.

      他很快就拍下了這個(gè)石膏標(biāo)型。但表面粗精，頂端破損，他認(rèn)為用日本嚴(yán)苛的高精度可以做得更好:"從那以后，他用同樣的配方制作了幾件不同尺寸的高精度雕塑，大約在他開(kāi)始建筑實(shí)踐的同時(shí)，他又涉足雕塑領(lǐng)域。東京的“日晷”(Sundial)是一種雙曲線形式，高達(dá)近40英尺。

      The largest of the group by far, “Point of Infinity,” is also a sundial in a sense, though without hour markings. Instead, Sugimoto will place a granite marker on the ground to align with the shadow cast by the artwork at solar noon on days of the spring and fall equinox. A ring of white gravel surrounds the sculpture to prevent it from becoming a skateboarding ramp.

      到目前為止，這一組中的大“無(wú)窮點(diǎn)”(Pointofinfinity)在某種意義上也是一個(gè)日暑，盡管沒(méi)有小時(shí)標(biāo)記。相反，杉本將在春分和秋分的日子里，在地面上放置一個(gè)花崗巖標(biāo)記，與藝術(shù)品在太陽(yáng)正午投下的陰影對(duì)齊。一圈白色的礫石圍繞著雕塑，以防止它成為滑板坡道。

      For his part, Sugimoto sees “Point of Infinity” not as a sculpture but, nodding to Marcel Duchamp, as a readymade, because it’s based on a mathematical model. “It’s a found object, but price-wise it’s the same as a sculpture,” he said, laughing again.

      就杉本而言，他認(rèn)為“無(wú)限之點(diǎn)”不是雕塑，而是現(xiàn)成的，因?yàn)樗腔跀?shù)學(xué)模型的，這是對(duì)馬塞爾·杜尚(MarcelDuchamp)的致敬?！斑@是一件現(xiàn)成的物品，但就價(jià)格而言，它和雕塑是一樣的，”他說(shuō)著又笑了起來(lái)。

      He referred to the project’s costs frequently, describing spikes in fabrication and global shipping over the past four years. Built in 29 sections, “Point of Infinity” was fabricated by Sanwa Tajima in Japan and shipped in eight containers to Oakland. The San Francisco Arts Commission contributed an extra

$350,000 in response to inflation, and the artist is absorbing other cost overruns himself.

      他經(jīng)常提到這個(gè)項(xiàng)目的成本，描述了過(guò)去四年里制造成本和全球運(yùn)輸成本的飆升。“Point of Infinity”由日本的田島三和SanwaTalimal制造，共分為29個(gè)部分，用8個(gè)集裝箱運(yùn)往奧克蘭。為了應(yīng)對(duì)通貨膨脹。舊金山藝術(shù)委員會(huì)額外捐助了35萬(wàn)美元，而這位藝家也在自己承擔(dān)其他超支的費(fèi)用。

      There could be one other major expense left: altering the cement walls lining the small hilltop park, remnants from a water tank on site. Noticing how they cut into city views, Sugimoto this week requested that the Arts Commission shave the walls down by about a foot to 42 inches. Manton says they are looking into it but “there are code and safety concerns.”

      可能還剩下一項(xiàng)主要開(kāi)支:改造小山頂公園的水泥墻，這是現(xiàn)場(chǎng)一個(gè)水箱的殘余物。杉本注意到這些墻是如何破壞城市景觀的，本周他要求藝術(shù)委員會(huì)把這些墻削掉大約一英尺到42英寸，曼頓表示，他們正在調(diào)查此事，但“有規(guī)范和安全方面的考慮”。

      Assuming that doesn’t cause delays, the park, currently considered a construction site, should officially open to the public sometime this fall. Variously called Tower Park and Yerba Buena Island Hilltop Park, it will be renamed Infinity Point Park.

      假設(shè)這不會(huì)造成延誤，這個(gè)目前被認(rèn)為是建筑工地的公園應(yīng)該在今年秋天的某個(gè)時(shí)候正式向公眾開(kāi)放。它被稱為“塔樓公園”和“芳草地島山頂公園”，將被重新命名為“無(wú)限點(diǎn)公園”。

      Sugimoto said he’d like to return around then to photograph the sculpture. “I will come back with this huge 8 x 10 camera. It’s cheaper to do it by myself,” he said, flashing another smile, “rather than asking for a professional photographer.”

      杉本說(shuō)，他想在那時(shí)回來(lái)拍攝雕塑?！拔視?huì)帶著這個(gè)巨大的8x10相機(jī)回來(lái)的。他又笑了笑，說(shuō):“自己拍比找專業(yè)攝影師便宜?！?/p>

Hiroshi Sugimoto Jessica Chou for The New York Times

杉本博  杰西卡·周 紐約時(shí)報(bào)

      Jori Finkel is a reporter who covers art from Los Angeles. She is also the West Coast contributing editor for The Art Newspaper and author of “It Speaks to Me: Art that Inspires Artists.”

      A version of this article appears in print on , Section C, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: A Reach for In?nity From High on a Hill

    JoriFinkel，洛杉磯藝術(shù)報(bào)道記者。她也是《藝術(shù)報(bào)》(theArtNewspaper)的西海岸特約編輯，著有《它對(duì)我說(shuō)話:激勵(lì)藝術(shù)家的藝術(shù)》(t Speaks to Me:ArthatinspirationArtists)。這篇文章的另一個(gè)版本出現(xiàn)在《紐約日?qǐng)?bào)》第6頁(yè)C部分，標(biāo)題為:從海到海的無(wú)限延伸。