The 300th Anniversary of his Birth : Jakuchu | teamLab

Name: The 300th Anniversary of his Birth : Jakuchu
Start: 2016-04-22
End: 2016-05-24
Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum,

The 300th Anniversary of his Birth : Jakuchu

전시 종료

2016.4.22(Fri) - 5.24(Tue)Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum,, Tokyo

The 300th Anniversary of his Birth : Jakuchu

전시 종료

2016.4.22(Fri) - 5.24(Tue)Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum,, Tokyo

작품

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.

teamLab에 대해

아트 컬렉티브 teamLab은 2001년 활동을 시작했다. 국경을 넘어선 연대 속에 집단 창작의 방식으로 예술, 과학, 테크놀로지 그리고 자연계의 교차점을 학제적 접근으로 모색한다. 아티스트, 프로그래머, 엔지니어, CG 애니메이터, 수학자, 건축가 등 다양한 분야의 전문가들로 구성된 teamLab은 예술을 통해 인간과 자연, 개인과 세계의 새로운 관계를 탐구하고 표현한다.
 
teamLab은 우리에게 익숙한 모든 경계에 대해 질문한다. 인간은 각자를 둘러싼 바깥 세상을 감각 기관으로 인지해 스스로와 분리하고 낱낱을 경계지어 독립체로 구분하려 한다. 현대 문명은 그런 방식으로 세계를 이해해 왔다. teamLab은 예술을 통해 감각을 확장하고 개인과 세계의 경계, 시간의 연속성에 대한 인지의 경계를 넘어설 수 있다고 믿는다. 이 세계의 모든 것은 광대한 시간 속에, 생명의 끝없는 연속 안에 가까스로, 하지만 기적적으로 존재하고 있다.

teamLab의 작품은 시드니 뉴사우스웨일스 주립 미술관, 애들레이드 사우스오스트레일리아 미술관, 샌프란시스코 아시아 미술관, 뉴욕 아시아 소사이어티, 이스탄불 보루산 현대 미술관, 멜버른 빅토리아 국립 미술관, 헬싱키 아모렉스가 영구 소장하고 있다.

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Biographical Documents

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

전시회장 정보

The 300th Anniversary of his Birth : Jakuchu

기간

2016.4.22(Fri) - 5.24(Tue)

Closing day

April 25 (Monday), May 9 (Monday)

Location

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Exhibition Room
Taito-ku, Tokyo Ueno Park 8-36

Holding Time

9:30-17:30 (Open until 20:00 on Fridays)
Entry into exhibition until 30 minutes before closing time.

Price

General: 1,600 yen (1,300 yen)
College students: 1,300 yen (1,100 yen)
High school students: 800 yen (600 yen)
Seniors 65+ : 1,000 yen (800 yen)( ) refer to advance and group discount tickets. Group discount tickets: more than 20 people.
Admission free for visitors of junior high school age or younger.
Admission free for visitors (and one accompanying person) with a Physical Disability Certificate,
Intellectual Disability Certificate, Rehabilitation Certificate, Mental Disability Certificate or Atomic Bomb Survivor’s Certificate.
In each case, please show identification.

General Inquiries

03-5405-8686 (9:00 ~ 18:00) (Hello Dial)

Organizers

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, NIKKEI Inc., NHK, NHK Promotions Inc.

With the Support of

The Imperial Household Agency

With the Sponsorship of

SEKISUI HOUSE, LTD., TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION, NEW COLOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTING Co.,Ltd.,
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company, Limited, MITSUI & CO., LTD.

With the support for transportation and installation

DAIKO ELECTRIC CO.,LTD, teamLab, JAPAN AIRLINES, MITSUBISHI RAYON CO.,LTD.

URL

http://www.tobikan.jp/