Art Stage Singapore 2013 | teamLab

Name: Art Stage Singapore 2013
Start: 2013-01-24
End: 2013-01-27
Location: Marina Bay Sands Convention and Exhibition Centre

Art Stage Singapore 2013

EXPOSIÇÃO PASSADA

2013.01.24(Thu) - 01.27(Sun)Marina Bay Sands Convention and Exhibition Centre, Singapore

Art Stage Singapore 2013

EXPOSIÇÃO PASSADA

2013.01.24(Thu) - 01.27(Sun)Marina Bay Sands Convention and Exhibition Centre, Singapore

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Nirvana

Itō Jakuchū (1716–1800) was an early modern Japanese painter who was active in Kyoto in the mid-Edo period. Jakuchū has left us with a unique style of painting in which the surface is made up of a grid of tens of thousands of squares that are individually colored. Nirvana was inspired by the screen paintings Birds, Animals, and Flowering Plants and Trees, Flowers, Birds and Animals.

Jakuchū’s square paintings remind us of computer-generated pixel art. It has been proposed that Jakuchū’s squares pictures were inspired by industrial production constraints in the designs of Nishijin (traditional high-quality silk fabric that is woven in Nishijin, Kyoto). Pixel art was also born from functional limitations. Those functional limitations no longer exist but pixel art is still a very popular form of expression. This is perhaps why we feel an intuitive digital sense to Jakuchū's square works. The colors of Jakuchū’s work are the result of the optical phenomena of visual mixing of color combinations within the squares. It appears as if Jakuchū understood optical mixing of colors at a time before Impressionism and Pointillism.

This artwork was created in a virtual 3-D space in which 3-D animals move. The space was then converted into what teamLab calls ultrasubjective space. Then,  the color in the 3-D space is split by the color pattern of the squares. For example, if the pattern of a square is colored in red and blue, that part corresponds to purple in the three dimensional space.

The squares of the screen are fixed while the space continues to move, and thus the color inside the squares is on a different time axis to the space. Seen as a whole from a distance, brilliantly shining  colors occur, and the world of plants and animals in the space will move at a slow time axis. When viewed up close, the colors divided by the finely drawn patterns of each square will change on a rapid time axis. Two time axes co-exist in this work.

In addition, parts of the image squares are filled in with the most frequent color in the squares, forming an abstract world. The plants and animals move in space, but are abstracted by the fixed squares on-screen, creating a new visual expression through pixel art.

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Featured on The Straits Times, Jan 21, 2014

Art Stage scores record turnout

Another Japan-based dealer, Tomio Koyama Gallery, sold four works by famed Japanese illustrator Yoshitomo Nara at $11,000 each, while Singapore’s Ikkan Art Gallery sold 20 digital media works by Japanese collective teamLab and Naoko Tosa for a total of US$550,000.Background storyFAIR HIGHLIGHTSSTRONGLY CURATED GALLERY PRESENTATIONSIkkan Art Gallery put the focus on Japan’s hot animation group teamLab, known for their arresting interactive animation installations.Cold LifeCrows are Chased and the Chasing Crows are Destined to be Chased as Well – Black in WhiteUniverse of Water Particles

Featured on BLOUIN ARTINFO, Jan 25, 2013

Strong Sales on Day 2 of Art Stage

“Nirvana,” a video installation by teamLab sold all editions at Ikkan Art Gallerypor Sonia Kolesnikov-JessopPublicado: 25 Janeiro 2013シンガポールで開催されている「Art Stage Singapore」の2日目は、週の半ばにも関わらず驚くべきほどの訪問者で賑わっており、相変わらず展示作品がよく売れていた。「Ikkan Art Gallery」は、展示作品の1つであるチームラボの「Nirvana」の5つのエディションを完売し、香港を拠点とする「Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery」も、8つのスクリーンで投影されるLee Lee Namによる5編のアニメーションインスタレーション「Traditional Painting – Happiness」を売った。ギャラリーのオーナーであるCatherine Kwai氏は、「お客様であるコレクター達は、展示している作品についてとても真剣に多くの質問を投げかけてこられますよ」と語った。

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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.