Sydney Contemporary 2024 | teamLab

Sydney Contemporary 2024

EXPOSITION PASSÉE

2024.09.05(Thu) - 09.08(Sun)Carriageworks, Sydney

Sydney Contemporary 2024

EXPOSITION PASSÉE

2024.09.05(Thu) - 09.08(Sun)Carriageworks, Sydney

TRAVAUX

Life Survives by the Power of Life II

Although self and nature seem distinct, they are actually a single entity, inseparable from each other. The opposite of division is not unification, and we might  realize that existences that appear to be distinct are actually part of a single whole.The blessings and threats of nature, as well as the blessings and threats of civilization, are continuous. Neither is there a source of absolute malice, nor can it all be dismissed idealistically. Nonetheless, we seek to affirm life in all aspects. Life is beautiful.
In this artwork, 生 (sei), the character that signifies life, is written three-dimensionally using Spatial Calligraphy. Spatial Calligraphy is a form of calligraphy drawn in space that teamLab has been exploring since it was founded. The artwork reconstructs calligraphy in three-dimensional space to express the depth, speed and power of the brush stroke, and that calligraphy is then flattened using the logical structure teamLab calls Ultrasubjective Space. The calligraphy shifts between two and three dimensions.
The space of a traditional artwork, framed by a lens or perspective, appears to be on the other side of the artwork’s surface: the surface becomes a boundary, and the space where the viewer exists is separated from the artwork space. However, one of the characteristics of Ultrasubjective Space is that the artwork surface does not become a boundary. Thus the space in which the artwork exists, transcends the boundary of the artwork surface and is perceived as though it exists three-dimensionally in the same space where the viewer stands. The artwork space is continuous with the viewer’s physical space.

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.

Proliferating Immense Life - Dawn and Dusk, A Whole Year per Year

The world of the artwork changes with the real flow of time of its location. The artwork grows brighter as the sun rises and darker when the sun sets, and the flowers change with the seasons.
The flowers are influenced by the actions of people, increasing in number as they grow, bloom, and scatter repeatedly.
When people stand close to the flowers, the petals scatter and fall away.

The real time in which the viewer exists, the time of the city, and the time of the continuous life of the flowers, all of these different times intersect and overlap, while the viewer’s body, the city, and the world of the artwork remain connected. The artwork space is an overlap of different times and space.

The space of the artwork is created with what teamLab refers to as Ultrasubjective Space. In contrast to spaces that are created through, or in other words 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 flowers 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.

Sydney Contemporary

Sydney Contemporary is Australasia’s premier art fair – the largest and most diverse gathering of leading contemporary art galleries from Australia, New Zealand, Asia and around the world.

Staged at Carriageworks, Australia’s largest multi-arts centre, the Fair welcomes over 95 emerging and established galleries, showcasing the work of over 500 artists presenting the best in contemporary and modern art.

Sydney Contemporary is the pre-eminent meeting place for the art world to engage with diverse practice. The Fair provides a critical platform to exhibit vibrant, ambitious and cutting-edge art from emerging and established artists to audiences from Australasia, including private and corporate collectors, high net-worth VIPs, institutional and museum directors and curators, art advisors, media and new art buyers. With a thriving art scene and sophisticated collector base, Sydney the financial capital of Australia and a dynamic cultural destination with an international reputation, home to significant public institutions, private museums and foundations, leading commercial galleries and the internationally renowned Biennale of Sydney, and newly opened Sydney Modern.

Alongside the gallery sectors, the curated program presents a showcase of the very best in contemporary art, current trends and emergent practices – installations, performances, an ambitious program of talks, guided tours, educational workshops, artist talks, the highly anticipated Art Night celebration and an exclusive VIP Program. Additionally, the Fair is home to bars, cafes and restaurants, making it an all-encompassing experience. Billed as one of the most celebrated events on Australia’s cultural calendar, Sydney Contemporary is a must-attend art event and the perfect place to discover and collect modern and contemporary art.

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Informations sur le Lieu

Sydney Contemporary 2024

Durée

2024.09.05(Thu) - 09.08(Sun)

Heures

Thursday 5 September
General Admission 11:00 - 17:00
Art Night 17:30 - 21:00

Friday 6 September
General Admission 11:00 - 17:00
Friday Night 16:00 - 20:00

Saturday 7 September
General Admission 11:00 - 18:00

Sunday 8 September
General Admission 11:00 - 17:00

Frais d'admission

Art Night
Advance: $65 + booking fee
Full Price: $79 (Save $14)

Friday Night
Advance: $35 + booking fee
Full Price: $40 (Save $5)

Premium+ Pass
Advance: $150 + booking fee

Day Ticket
Advance: $35 + booking fee
Full Price: $40 (save $5)

Concession Ticket
Advance: $30 + booking fee

Site Internet

Sydney Contemporary

Accès

Carriageworks
245 Wilson Street
Eveleigh, Sydney

CONTACT

By email

info@artfairsaustralia.com.au

ARTISTE

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.