Art Basel - Hong Kong | teamLab

Name: Art Basel - Hong Kong
Start: 2016-03-24
End: 2016-03-26
Location: Pace Gallery - Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

Art Basel - Hong Kong

PAST EXHIBITION

Mar 24 - Mar 26, 2016Pace Gallery - Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC), Hong Kong

Art Basel - Hong Kong

PAST EXHIBITION

Mar 24 - Mar 26, 2016Pace Gallery - Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC), Hong Kong

Artworks

Black Waves

All oceans are connected to each other, and so are all the waves in this world.

In classical East Asian art, waves are often expressed using a combination of lines. These waves created by lines allow us to realize that each wave is one part of a larger flow, and conveys life as though the waves are a living entity.

When the waves rise, we can feel a powerful breath of life, as though life is blooming. It feels as though each wave has a life of its own. But when the waves collapse and disappear, we realize, with a sense of fragility, that they were a part of the ocean. And that ocean is connected to all of the other oceans. In other words, all of the waves in the world are connected to each other.
The waves seem alive because life is like a rising wave. It is a miraculous phenomenon that continuously emerges from a single, continuous ocean.

The waves are expressed through a continuous body of countless water particles. The interactions of particles are calculated, and then the movement of water is simulated in three-dimensional space. Lines are created along the trajectories of the water particles, and drawn on the surface layer of the three-dimensional waves.

The lines are created with what teamLab refers to as Ultrasubjective Space. In contrast to space that is created through, or cut out by, lenses and perspective, Ultrasubjective Space does not fix the viewer’s viewpoint and in turn frees the body. The wall that the waves are seen on does not become a boundary between the viewer and the artwork, and the artwork space is continuous with the space of the viewer’s body.

About 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.

Venue Details

Art Basel - Hong Kong

Term

Mar 24 - Mar 26, 2016

Holding Time

Thursday, March 24, 2016, 1pm to 9pm
Friday, March 25, 2016, 1pm to 8pm
Saturday, March 26, 2016, 11am to 6pm

Location

Pace Gallery - Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC), Hong Kong

Pricee

Vernissage ticket (Mar 23, 5pm to 9pm): HKD 850

Evening ticket (Mar 24 only, 5pm to 9pm): HKD 180

Thursday ticket (Mar 24, advance tickets are no longer available, very limited tickets to be sold at the venue): HKD 250, concessions HKD 150

Friday ticket (Mar 25, advance tickets are no longer available, limited tickets to be sold at the venue): HKD 250, concessions HKD 150

Saturday ticket (Mar 26, limited tickets available) : HKD 350, concessions HKD 200

Two-weekday ticket (valid Mar 24 to 25, advance tickets are no longer available, limited tickets to be sold at the venue) : HKD 450, concessions HKD 300

Three-day ticket (valid all days, Mar 24 to 26) : HKD 650, concessions HKD 400

*Admission is free for children aged 5 and under when accompanied by an adult.

URL

https://www.artbasel.com/hong-kong/the-show#-2899