teamLab | teamLab

Name: teamLab
Start: 2019-03-16
End: 2019-09-01
Location: Espacio Fundación Telefónica

teamLab

EXPOSITION PASSÉE

2019.03.16(Sat) - 09.01(Sun)Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid

teamLab

EXPOSITION PASSÉE

2019.03.16(Sat) - 09.01(Sun)Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid

Exhibition Concept
The exhibition brings together three great works by teamLab, an art collective aiming to explore through digital art a new way of relating human beings to nature and the world around us. - Espacio Fundación Telefónica

TRAVAUX

Black Waves: Lost, Immersed and Reborn

This is an installation made of one continuous wave. The waves projected are all connected and form a single, unbroken body of water. As we immerse and meld ourselves into the waves, we explore a continuity among people, as well as a new relationship that transcends the boundaries between people and the world. 
The movement of waves in water is simulated in a computer-generated three-dimensional space. The water is expressed as a continuous body after calculating the interactions of hundreds of thousands of particles. To visualize the waves, the behavior of the particles of the water was then extracted and lines were drawn in relation to the movement of the particles. The wave created in a 3-D space is then turned into an artwork in accordance with what teamLab refers to as ultrasubjective space.

In premodern Japanese painting, oceans, rivers, and other bodies of water were expressed as a series of lines. These lines give the impression of life, as though water was a living entity.  

This form of expression leads us to question why premodern people sensed life in rivers and oceans. Also, why did they behave as if they themselves were a part of nature? Perhaps something can be discovered by fusing the fixed objective world of today’s common knowledge with the subjective world of premodern people.

While viewing this artwork, if we feel a sense of life in the collection of lines—what can be called the subjective world of premodern people—then perhaps this is one aspect of objective recognition.

When viewing this artwork, as opposed to watching waves shot with a video camera, people may feel that the barrier between themselves and the waves disappears. They feel immersed in the work, perhaps even feeling life in the collection of lines, as if the waves are luring them in. Perhaps we can find a connection to the way premodern Japanese people perceived the world and consequently behaved toward the world.

If we regard ourselves as a part of nature, and consider nature not just as something to be observed, we might join premodern people in perceiving rivers and oceans as living entities. This is a way of seeing the world that lures us in and allows us to feel that there is no boundary between ourselves and nature.

Flutter of Butterflies, Born from Hands

Enso - Cold Light

Enso est une pratique Zen qui consiste à dessiner un cercle d’un seul coup de pinceau. L’oeuvre présentée  illustre un Enso dessiné sous la forme d'une calligraphie spatiale. Le coup de pinceau est suspendu dans l'espace tandis que le point de vue change pour révéler le cercle Enso. 
Le collectif teamlab travaille sur la calligraphie spatiale depuis sa formation. Cette dernière, en tant que nouvelle interprétation de la calligraphie traditionnelle, la reconstruit dans un espace tridimensionnel afin d’exprimer la profondeur, la rapidité et la puissance du coup de pinceau. Depuis les anciennes pratiques Zen, Enso est un cercle tracé dans les airs avec des cannes ou des bâtons. On dit qu'il représente l'illumination, la vérité, la complétude de l’univers et l'égalité.Le cercle reflète également le coeur et l'esprit de ceux qui le voient et son interprétation laissée libre à chacun.

VISITE

Informations sur le Lieu

teamLab

Durée

2019.03.16(Sat) - 09.01(Sun)

Heures

Tue - Sun 10:00 - 20:00

Fermé

Mondays

Frais d'admission

Free

Guided Tours

*Free without reservation as of Tuesday, March 24, 2019:
Wednesdays at 10:30, 12:00 and 17:00
Fridays at 10:30 and 17:00
Sundays at 10:30
*Arranged visits with prior reservation available too.

General Information

+34 915 808 700

Website

https://espacio.fundaciontelefonica.com/evento/teamlab/

Accès

Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid
Calle de Fuencarral, 3, 28004 Madrid

Map

Metro: Gran Vía (Lines 1 and 5)

Renfe suburban trains: Sol station

Buses (urban lines): 1, 2, 46, 74, 146, 202, N16, N18, N19, N20, N21.

Rental Bicycle BiciMad: Station 21

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ARTISTE

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 exhibitions have been held in cities worldwide, including New York, London, Paris, Singapore, Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Melbourne among others. teamLab museums and large-scale permanent exhibitions include teamLab Borderless and teamLab Planets in Tokyo, teamLab Borderless Shanghai, and teamLab SuperNature Macao, with more to open in cities including Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Hamburg, Jeddah, and Utrecht.

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

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Biographical Documents

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