Ueshima Museum Opening Exhibition | teamLab

Name: Ueshima Museum Opening Exhibition
Location: UESHIMA MUSEUM

Ueshima Museum Opening Exhibition

Jun 01, 2024 - the end of March 2025UESHIMA MUSEUM, Shibuya, Tokyo

Group Exhibition

Ueshima Museum Opening Exhibition

Jun 01, 2024 - the end of March 2025UESHIMA MUSEUM, Shibuya, Tokyo

Group Exhibition

ARTWORKS

Matter is Void - Fire

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Through the artwork, Matter is Void, teamLab explores the notion of ownership.

This is an NFT artwork. There is only one NFT of this work, but it does not make it exclusive. Anyone and any number of people can download and own the artwork itself. In other words, whether or not someone owns the NFT of the work, the downloaded artworks cannot be distinguished from each other and they are all authentic.
The artwork displays the words chosen by teamLab, “Matter is Void”. Only the NFT owner can modify these words, and those same words will be reflected in all of the artworks downloaded by people around the world.
Depending on the words chosen by the owner of the NFT, the value of the artwork will change. If the words rewritten by the owner of the NFT possess value, more people may choose to own the artwork; and if the words do not possess value, people may no longer choose to display the work. There may be great value in rewriting the words of an artwork that many people look at, and conversely little value in rewriting the words of an artwork that is not displayed anywhere. Depending on the words chosen by the owner of the NFT, the value of the NFT will also likely change.
Once the original words are modified, even if the owner of the NFT decides to change them back to “Matter is Void”, the words will appear differently from the original; the initial “Matter is Void”, once modified, will not be able to be seen in its original state ever again.

The letters of the words in this artwork continuously revolve and rotate. Depending on the angle we may be able to recognize the letters as they continue to rotate, and there will be moments when we can recognize the meaning of the letters as a whole, but once again, they will become indiscernible and the words lose meaning. The way in which the words revolve is visually perceived as moving simultaneously clockwise and counterclockwise, and depending on which movement is consciously followed, the words can appear to be moving in either direction.

UESHIMA COLLECTION

The museum, centered around the theme of "Contemporaneity," showcases a selection of contemporary art by a wide range of artists from both Japan and abroad. From the UESHIMA COLLECTION, which includes over 650 works, visitors can enjoy carefully selected pieces based on various themes.

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Venue Details

Ueshima Museum Opening Exhibition

Term

Jun 01, 2024 - the end of March 2025

Hours

11:00 AM - 17:00 PM(last entry at 4:00 PM. )
※3rd and 4th floors open only on Saturdays

Closed

Mondays, Sundays, and Public Holidays

Admission Fee

Adults : ¥1,500
Middle and High School Students : ¥1,000
Elementary School Students and Younger : Free

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UESHIMA MUSEUM
Shibuya Kyoiku Gakuen Uejima Tower, 1-21-18 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

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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.