UCCA Beijing

Tatsuo Miyajima: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust

2011.7.16 - 2011.10.8

1999

LED, IC, electric wire, sensor, etc

Installation size h.4.3 x 15 x 5.8 m

Installation view at Suntory Museum, Osaka

Courtesy of SCAI THE BATHHOUSE

About

Location:  Great Hall

Tatsuo Miyajima’s UCCA solo show Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust marks the first time that this leading-edge Japanese artist has held a solo exhibition in China. His elegantly-constructed works of installation and sculpture – featuring digital counters that the artist describes as “LED gadgets” – invoke numerals as a metaphor for human existence. UCCA audiences are sure to enjoy this powerful synthesis of modern technology, Buddhist philosophy and visceral experience.

UCCA Director Jérôme Sans says that for Tatsuo Miyajima, “numbers are both figurative and abstract, symbolizing a vast realm of existential possibilities, the eternal nature of space and time, and the infinite cycle of life, death and rebirth. His core artistic concepts are derived from Buddhist philosophy, while his methods and materiel are informed by the latest technologies.”

For more information, please read the “Tatsuo Miyajima: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust” press release.

Works in the exhibition

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Tatsuo Miyajima

Floating Time

1999
Computer graphics soft, projector
Variable dimensions
Photo: Norihiro Ueno
Collection of Sotoasahikawa Hospital, Akita, Japan
Courtesy : Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Art Consulting Firm, SCAI THE BATHHOUSE

Tatsuo Miyajima

Floating Time

1999
Computer graphics soft, projector
Variable dimensions
Photo: Norihiro Ueno
Collection of Sotoasahikawa Hospital, Akita, Japan
Courtesy : Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Art Consulting Firm, SCAI THE BATHHOUSE

Tatsuo Miyajima

Floating Time

1999
Computer graphics soft, projector
Variable dimensions
Photo: Norihiro Ueno
Collection of Sotoasahikawa Hospital, Akita, Japan
Courtesy : Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Art Consulting Firm, SCAI THE BATHHOUSE

Tatsuo Miyajima

HOTO

2008
LED, electric wire, stainless steel, iron frame
Installation view at Contemporary Art
Gallery, Art Tower Mito
Photo : Daici Ano
Courtesy : SCAI THE BATHHOUSE

Tatsuo Miyajima

HOTO

2008
LED, electric wire, stainless steel, iron frame
Installation view at Contemporary Art
Gallery, Art Tower Mito
Photo : Daici Ano
Courtesy : SCAI THE BATHHOUSE

Tatsuo Miyajima

HOTO

2008
LED, electric wire, stainless steel, iron frame
Installation view at Contemporary Art
Gallery, Art Tower Mito
Photo : Daici Ano
Courtesy : SCAI THE BATHHOUSE

Tatsuo Miyajima

MEGA DEATH

1999
LED, IC, electric wire, sensor, etc
Installation size h.4.3 x 15 x 5.8 m
Installation view at Suntory Museum, Osaka
Courtesy of SCAI THE BATHHOUSE

Tatsuo Miyajima

MEGA DEATH

1999
LED, IC, electric wire, sensor, etc
Installation size h.4.3 x 15 x 5.8 m
Installation view at Suntory Museum, Osaka
Courtesy of SCAI THE BATHHOUSE

Tatsuo Miyajima

MEGA DEATH

1999
LED, IC, electric wire, sensor, etc
Installation size h.4.3 x 15 x 5.8 m
Installation view at Suntory Museum, Osaka
Courtesy of SCAI THE BATHHOUSE

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