Zipangu – Contemporary artists who have run through the Heisei era | teamLab

Name: Zipangu – Contemporary artists who have run through the Heisei era
Start: 2024-11-02
End: 2024-12-22
Location: Hiroshima Museum of Art

Zipangu – Contemporary artists who have run through the Heisei era

EXPOSIÇÃO PASSADA

2024.11.02(Sat) - 12.22(Sun)Hiroshima Museum of Art, Hiroshima

Group Exhibition

Zipangu – Contemporary artists who have run through the Heisei era

EXPOSIÇÃO PASSADA

2024.11.02(Sat) - 12.22(Sun)Hiroshima Museum of Art, Hiroshima

Group Exhibition

OBRAS

United, Fragmented, Repeated and Impermanent World

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. This work 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. Furthermore, when a visitor stands in front of the work, the squares near them are similarly painted. The plants and animals move in space, but are abstracted by the fixed squares on-screen, creating a new visual expression through pixel art.

EXHIBITION OVERVIEW

Zipangu – Contemporary artists who have run through the Heisei era
The Heisei era is sometimes called the "Lost 30 Years," but it was also a time when exceptional talent in fashion, architecture, anime, manga, and contemporary art flourished, earning global recognition.
This exhibition offers a chronological exploration of Japanese contemporary art that emerged during the Heisei era. It is a restructured and expanded version of the "Zipangu" exhibition, originally held in Japan in 2011-2012.
The original Zipangu exhibition aimed to rediscover the allure of Japanese contemporary art. It also sought to heal and rejuvenate Japan through the power of art in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
In this updated Zipangu exhibition, we bring together works from leading artists who have shaped the art world from the Heisei era into the Reiwa era. These artists have developed unique expressions by blending and transforming Japanese culture within the broader context of global contemporary art. Their works reflect the complexity and diversity of their times.
As you explore the art on display, we invite you to reflect on the Heisei era and enjoy the contemporary art that continues to evolve today. (from Exhibition page)

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Detalhes do local

Zipangu – Contemporary artists who have run through the Heisei era

Duração

2024.11.02(Sat) - 12.22(Sun)

Horas

9:00 - 17:00 (Last entry 16:30)

Fechado

Open every day during the exhibition period

Valor do Ingresso

Adults ¥2,000
Students ¥1,000
Children ¥500

*Student:Senior high / College students, Children:Primary / Secondary students
*This ticket is also valid for the Collection Galleries.
*Seniors (65+) can apply for ¥200 discount on the Individual Adults ticket price.
*Admission free for visitors with a disability certificate, including one accompanying person.

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Hiroshima Museum of Art

Acesso

Local

Hiroshima Museum of Art
3 - 2 Motomachi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima

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Endereço no idioma local:

ひろしま美術館
広島市中区基町3－2 中央公園内

ARTISTA

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.

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Hiroshima Museum of Art