The Art of ZEN: From Mind to Form | teamLab

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The Art of ZEN: From Mind to Form
ESPOSIZIONI PASSATE
2016.10.18(Tue) - 11.27(Sun)TOKYO NATIONAL MUSEUM, Tokyo
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The Art of ZEN: From Mind to Form
ESPOSIZIONI PASSATE
2016.10.18(Tue) - 11.27(Sun)TOKYO NATIONAL MUSEUM, Tokyo

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Enso / Mugenso

This artwork adopts the motif of ensō from Zen calligraphy, circles and infinity symbols are eternally written over and over in "Spatial Calligraphy."

teamLab has been working on Spatial Calligraphy since the collective formed. Spatial Calligraphy is a new interpretation of traditional calligraphy; it reconstructs Japanese calligraphy in three-dimensional space and expresses the depth, speed and power of the brush stroke. For this work, circles and infinity symbols are drawn and twisted 180 degrees like a Mobius strip, with no distinction between the front and back faces.

In Zen, ensō is a circle that has since ancient times been written with canes or sticks in midair. It is said to represent enlightenment, truth, the entirety of the universe, and equality. The circle also reflects the hearts and minds of those who view it, with its interpretation left to the individual.

One explanation for the origin of the infinity symbol is the ancient ouroboros: a symbol consisting of a single snake or dragon curled in a ring consuming itself, or of two creatures consuming each other. It has many meanings: perfection, permanence, cycles, genesis, eternity etc. For human beings that understand the world as being finite, it is difficult to fully comprehend the concept of infinity.

In a single moment, a new piece of calligraphy is written, then vanishes. It is not a playback of prerecorded images; new calligraphy is continuously being created, without duplicating previous works. The same calligraphy that is viewable one moment can never be seen again.

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The Art of ZEN: From Mind to Form

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2016.10.18(Tue) - 11.27(Sun)
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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. teamlab.art Biographical Documents teamLab is represented by Pace Gallery, Martin Browne Contemporary and Ikkan Art.