Light Upon Light: Light Art Since the 1960s | teamLab

Name: Light Upon Light: Light Art Since the 1960s
Start: 2021-03-18
End: 2021-06-12
Location: King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD)

Light Upon Light: Light Art Since the 1960s

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2021.03.18(Thu) - 06.12(Sat)King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) , Riyadh

Group Exhibition

teamLab joins a landmark exhibition curated by former curator of the Guggenheim Museum Susan Davidson, and Raneem Zaki Farsi, expert in Saudi Arabia’s contemporary art scene.

Light Upon Light: Light Art Since the 1960s

นิทรรศการที่ผ่านมา

2021.03.18(Thu) - 06.12(Sat)King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) , Riyadh

Group Exhibition

teamLab joins a landmark exhibition curated by former curator of the Guggenheim Museum Susan Davidson, and Raneem Zaki Farsi, expert in Saudi Arabia’s contemporary art scene.

Light Upon Light: Light Art Since the 1960s

“Light Upon Light: Light Art since the 1960s” is a landmark retrospective exhibition of light art divided into four sectional “rays” that survey light as an artistic medium: “Perceiving Light,” “Experiencing Light,” “Projecting Light,” and “Environmental Light.” Each ray blends time and unites established artists of diverse geographic origin.

From immersive installation to video and sculpture, visitors to “Light Upon Light” will experience a richly illuminated exhibition in all its spatial and sensory phenomena.

The exhibition is curated by Susan Davidson, former Senior Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and Raneem Zaki Farsi, Curator, Art Advisor and an expert in Saudi Arabia’s contemporary art scene.

Noor Riyadh
Noor Riyadh is a new citywide annual festival of light and art organized by Riyadh Art, the first national public art initiative in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which transforms the city of Riyadh into a gallery without walls, and a creative powerhouse for the digital age. The Noor Riyadh festival consists of numerous public art installations across the city; "Light Upon Light: Light Art since the 1960s," a landmark exhibition of light art; and a diverse program of talks, workshops and events.

Riyadh Art features some of the most prominent names in the international art world alongside an expansive roster of emerging and established local and regional artists. Noor Riyadh features over 60 artists, including Daniel Buren, Carsten Höller, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Yayoi Kusama, Dan Flavin and Robert Wilson, alongside Saudi artists Ahmed Mater, Lulwah Al Homoud, Ayman Zedani, Rashed AlShashai and Maha Malluh.

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Flowers and People − A Whole Year per Hour

A year’s worth of seasonal flowers bloom over the course of an hour, continuously scattering and changing.

Flowers are born, bloom, then in the course of time, they wither and die. The flowers are eternally repeating the process of life and death. When people move in front of the artwork, the flowers scatter all at once. But when people stand still, flowers bloom and grow more abundantly.

The artwork is not a pre-recorded image that is played back: it is created by a computer program that continuously renders the work in real time. The interaction between people and the installation causes continuous change in the artwork: previous visual states can never be replicated, and will never reoccur. The picture at this moment can never be seen again.

In spring in the Kunisaki Peninsula, there are many cherry blossoms in the mountains and canola blossoms at their base. This experience of nature caused teamLab to wonder how many of these flowers were planted by people and how many were native to the environment. It is a place of great serenity and contentment, but the expansive body of flowers is an ecosystem influenced by human intervention, and the boundary between the work of nature and the work of humans is unclear. Rather than nature and humans being in conflict, a healthy ecosystem is one that includes people. In the past, people understood that they could not grasp nature in its entirety, and that it is not possible to control nature. People lived more closely aligned to the rules of nature that created a comfortable natural environment. We believe that these valleys hold faint traces of this premodern relationship with nature that once existed, and we hope to explore a form of human intervention based on the premise that nature cannot be controlled.

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Light Upon Light: Light Art Since the 1960s

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2021.03.18(Thu) - 06.12(Sat)

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18:00 - 1:00 Every Day

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Free

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Riyadh Art

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King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) Exhibition Hall
Al Aqiq, Riyadh 13511, Saudi Arabia

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العقيق، الرياض 13511

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Featured on designboom, Mar 20, 2021

the noor riyadh light installation festival lights up the saudi capital

a new city-wide festival of light and art will illuminate saudi arabia’s capital from march 18 – june 12. dubbed noor riyadh, the program features over 60 artworks comprising large-scale public installations across the city and an exhibition titled light upon light: light art since the 1960s. the festival line-up includes international artists including daniel buren, carsten höller, yayoi kusama, dan flavin, and robert wilson, together with saudi artists ahmed mater, lulwah al homoud, ayman zedani, rashed alshashai and maha malluh. (Excerpt from the text)

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

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