Enchanted Worlds: Hokusai, Hiroshige and the Art of Edo Japan | teamLab

Name: Enchanted Worlds: Hokusai, Hiroshige and the Art of Edo Japan
Start: 2020-06-13
End: 2020-08-16
Location: Auckland Art Gallery

Enchanted Worlds: Hokusai, Hiroshige and the Art of Edo Japan

PAST EXHIBITION

Jun 13 - Aug 16, 2020Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland

Auckland Art Gallery is temporarily closed until June 13.
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Enchanted Worlds: Hokusai, Hiroshige and the Art of Edo Japan

PAST EXHIBITION

Jun 13 - Aug 16, 2020Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland

Auckland Art Gallery is temporarily closed until June 13.
Click here for the latest updates.

ARTWORKS

Four Seasons, a 1000 Years, Terraced Rice Fields - Tashibunosho

The scenery of Tashibunosho has been unchanged for thousands of years. It is depicted here through the lives of the people who continue to live in harmony with nature in this perpetual landscape.

The depicted landscape and people’s lives change in the picture throughout the year.

The picture changes throughout the day. It grows brighter as the sun rises, and it becomes aglow with the setting sun. As the night deepens, darkness sets in. The lives of the people depicted changes together with the flow of time.

During the season of the Harvest festival, people will start playing music and dancing at night.

The artwork synchronises with the actual sunrise and sunset at Tashibunosho. When it is actually raining in Tabushinosho, it will also rain in the depicted world.

The scenery of Tashibunosho has been unchanged for thousands of years, and likewise the scenery of the artwork will continue in perpetuity largely unchanged. But just as the natural landscape is never exactly the same, even though it looks similar, the artwork will look different if looked at the following year. The appearance of the artwork at this moment exists only now; you will never be able to see it again. A new landscape is constantly being created.

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Enchanted Worlds: Hokusai, Hiroshige and the Art of Edo Japan

Term

Jun 13 - Aug 16, 2020

Hours

Open daily 10:00 - 17:00

Admission Fee

$16-$29
* Members and children 12 and under FREE

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Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Level 1
Cnr Kitchener and Wellesley Streets, CBD, Auckland

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teamLab (f. 2001) is an international art collective. Their collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, and the natural world. Through art, the interdisciplinary group of specialists, including artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects, aims to explore the relationship between the self and the world, and new forms of perception.

In order to understand the world around them, people separate it into independent entities with perceived boundaries between them. teamLab seeks to transcend these boundaries in our perceptions of the world, of the relationship between the self and the world, and of the continuity of time. Everything exists in a long, fragile yet miraculous, borderless continuity.

teamLab’s works are in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra;  Amos Rex, Helsinki; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul; and Asia Society Museum, New York, among others.

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teamLab is represented by Pace Gallery, Martin Browne Contemporary and Ikkan Art.