Sydney Contemporary 2019 | teamLab

Name: Sydney Contemporary 2019
Start: 2019-09-12
End: 2019-09-15
Location: Carriageworks

Sydney Contemporary 2019

PAST EXHIBITION

Sep 12 - Sep 15, 2019Carriageworks, Sydney

Sydney Contemporary 2019

PAST EXHIBITION

Sep 12 - Sep 15, 2019Carriageworks, Sydney

ARTWORKS

Enso - Gold Light

Enso is the Zen practice of drawing a circle with a single brushstroke. This artwork depicts enso drawn as Spatial Calligraphy. The brushstroke is suspended in space, but there are moments when its circular shape is revealed as the brushstroke rotates and shifts the viewpoint.
Spatial Calligraphy is a form of calligraphy drawn in space that teamLab has been exploring since it was founded. The artwork reconstructs calligraphy in three-dimensional space to express the depth, speed, and power of the brushstroke, and that calligraphy is then flattened using the logical structure of space that teamLab calls Ultrasubjective Space. The calligraphy shifts between two and three dimensions.
Back in ancient times, enso was drawn in space using sticks, to symbolize the concepts of enlightenment, truth, the universe, and equality, in a figurative manner. The circle is also a reflection of the viewer’s inner self, thus its interpretation depends on the viewer.

Impermanent Life, at the Confluence of Spacetime New Space and Time is Born

In the background, cherry blossoms bloom and scatter, the cycle of life and death repeats itself.From the countless background points, at a certain rhythm and interval, a circle is born that grows and spreads out radially. The circle born transforms only the light and darkness of the background world.

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Venue Details

Sydney Contemporary 2019

Term

Sep 12 - Sep 15, 2019

Hours

VIP Preview (VIP Pass only)
Wednesday 11 September, 4pm - 8pm

Opening Night
Thursday 12 September, 5pm - 9pm

General Opening Hours
Thursday 12 September, 12noon - 5pm
Friday 13 September, 12noon - 8pm
Saturday 14 September, 11am - 6pm
Sunday 15 September, 11am - 6pm

Website

Sydney Contemporary

ACCESS

Address

Carriageworks, Booth E1
245 Wilson St, Eveleigh NSW 2015

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ARTIST

teamLab

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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Biographical Documents

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