Time-blossoming Flowers, Tokyo | teamLab

Name: Time-blossoming Flowers, Tokyo
Location: KITTE

Time-blossoming Flowers, Tokyo

ESPOSIZIONI PASSATE

2014.3.21(Fri) - Temporarily closedKITTE, Tokyo

Public Art

Time-blossoming Flowers, Tokyo

ESPOSIZIONI PASSATE

2014.3.21(Fri) - Temporarily closedKITTE, Tokyo

Public Art

OPERE

Time-blossoming Flowers

Together at this time we inherit history and space; in the past, present, and future, people are connected and continue to connect. For this work teamLab wishes to express the continuing connections of people over time through endless blooming flowers.

This work is created continuously in real-time in increments of hours, days, and years.

Every hour, on the hour, all the flowers fall together in a shower of blossoms. The number of blooms then gradually increases throughout each hour. At 30 minutes past the hour, for example, about half of all the flowers are blooming.

The look of the work changes throughout the day. It grows light with the sunrise, glows with the sunset as the sun goes down, and grows dark as the night deepens. It works in sync with the actual sunrise and sunset every day at this location.

The flowers that are blooming vary throughout the year. They are always turning into different Japanese seasonal flowers to coincide with the passing seasons.

Just as the natural landscape is not the same twice, what we see in the artwork now, cannot be viewed twice. The picture is being created over time, and the picture that you see is always for the first time.

Traditional Japanese art is often referred to as being planar, but we at teamLab believe that there is a different logical construction of space to that of the perspective of the West. We call that  "Ultra Subjective Space". This work is based on that logic of Ultra Subjective Space. The world was constructed in three-dimensions, in three-dimensional space, and then it was made to be planar in line with what we believe to be the logical structure of spatial recognition of Japanese art.
 
Flowers of the Seasons

January: Daffodil, Christmas Camellia, Cineraria
February: Japanese Apricot, Daffodil, Cineraria, Rapeseed
March: Winter Daphne, Daffodil, Cineraria, Rapeseed, Japanese Apricot
April: Cherry Blossom, Daffodil, Cineraria, Rapeseed, Milkvetch
May: Rabbit Ear iris, Milkvetch, Tickseed, Weigela Hortensis
June: Hydrangea, Lily, Japanese Bellflower, Japanese Stewartia
July: Japanese Morning Glory, Lily, Japanese Bellflower, Crape Myrtle
August: Sunflower, Lily, White Rain Lily, Crape Myrtle
September: Red Spider Lily, White Rain Lily, Cosmos, Crape Myrtle
October: Fragrant Olive, Cosmos, Nippon Daisy, Pansy
November: Florist's Daisy, Cosmos, Nippon Daisy, Florist's Cyclamen, Pansy
December: Christmas Camellia, Florist's Daisy, Florist's Cyclamen, Pansy

※Some of the trees with flowers in this work have the motif of the holly tree, Ilex latifolia. When the underside of the leaves of this tree are scratched they leave a dark mark. As the mark remains for a long period of time it is said that the leaves were used to write on, and it is thought that this is the etymology of the japanese word for postcard (which consists of the characters for ‘leaf’ and ‘word”), and as to why it is sometimes called the Post Office tree. Ilex latifolia trees have existed in front of this JP Tower since the era of the Tokyo Central Post Office. The Ilex latifolia inside this work will change with the seasons, to flower and fruit.

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Informazioni sulla Sede

Time-blossoming Flowers, Tokyo

Durata

2014.3.21(Fri) - Temporarily closed

Orari

6:00 - 24:30

Chiuso

January 1st and legal inspection date

URL

http://jptower-kitte.jp/en/

Accesso

Sede

KITTE 1F
2-7-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

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Indirizzo nella lingua locale:

ＫＩＴＴＥ館内1Fアトリウム大型モニター
東京都千代田区丸の内二丁目7番2号

NOTIZIE

Featured on Sankei News , Mar 21, 2014

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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 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.