Taipei Fine Arts Museum is currently exhibiting the Japanese minimalist electronic composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda's Solo Exhibition. This solo exhibition is the most comprehensive exhibition by Ryoji Ikeda in the past 10 years in Asia. The exhibition will be held from August 10th to November 17th, 2019. Located on the ground floor of Taipei Fine Arts Museum, galleries 1A-1B.
Ryoji Ikeda is famous for his combination of electronic music and visual art. He integrates elements of sound, video, mathematics, and physical phenomena into music, performance, and installation art. Ryoji Ikeda was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 1966. Lives and works in Kyoto and Paris. The music created by Ryoji Ikeda is mainly composed of various original sounds, such as sounds of specific frequencies and noises. After capturing the characteristics of these sounds, import it into the computer to do mathematical operations, and match the rhythm, then a wonderful track is produced.
In 1994, he collaborated with the Japanese multimedia art team "Dumb Type" as a music producer, expanding from music to theater and performing arts, performing in many countries and recording it as an album. His album includes”+/-”, “0°C”, “Matrix”, “Dataplex”, “Test pattern”, “supercodex”, “The Solar System” and performances with Eklekto (Geneva) in 2016-17, also included in the "Music For Percussion" album. Ryoji Ikeda received the PRIX Ars Electronica Collide@CERN Residency Award in 2014.
Ryoji Ikeda's exhibitions are held all over the world, including Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Singapore Art Museum, Ars Electronica Center Linz, Elektra Festival Montreal, Grec and Sonar Festivals Barcelona, Aichi Triennale Nagoya, Palazzo Grassi Venice, Park Avenue Armory New York, The Whitechapel Gallery London, The Barbican Centre and Somerset House London, Museo de Arte Bogota, Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, DHC/Art Montreal, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Sharjah Biennale, Carriageworks Sydney, Auckland Triennale, MONA Museum Hobart – Tasmania, Ruhrtriennale, Telefonica Foundation Madrid and Kyoto Experiment Festival, ACT Centre Gwangju (Korea), Singapore Art Science Museum, Kunstverein Hannover, RuhrTriennale, Festival d’Automne and Pompidou Center , Barbican, The Vinyl Factory, and ZKM centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, among others.
Contemporain (FNAC), FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), have collected works by Ryoji Ikeda.
This solo exhibition was jointly curated by TFAM curator Jo Hsiao and guest curator Eva Lin. Ryoji Ikeda exhibited many large-scale sound sculptures and audio-visual installations under the concept of "What is sound?" The work "A [continuum]", the "standard pitch" which used in historical concerts have been assigned to five super-directional speakers, each of which emits different frequencies and overlap into complex resonances. The work "code-verse" recombines the previous works, higher abstraction the various symbols from the data, and forms a music poem that is without interpreted but full of flashing sound and light. Double-faced installation work "point of no return" is the most mysterious metaphysical work in Ryoji Ikeda's all creations. One wall that is projected a black hole formed by a large number of messages are information; another wall is a white light source that approximates the color of the sun. Ikeda wants to express that anything even light once enters a black hole, can never escape.
The work "the plank universe [macro]" uses the infinitely small unit of measure "Planck length" in physics to explore the potential of human perception for the infinitely small or infinite nature of nature, extend the limits of our understanding of the world and approach the edges of the universe’s extremities. This work was created during Ryoji Ikeda stay at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
In addition, the exhibition space has also been specially planned.
Ryoji Ikeda uses technology as a medium to create an immersive environment that touches the audience's perception of the whole body. Each space and work can bring different scales and feelings, just like leading the audience to explore the microscopic world and the infinite universe.
Ryoji Ikeda Solo Exhibition
Date: 10 August – 17 November 2019
Venue: Taipei Fine Arts Museum galleries 1A-1B.
Figure 1：Data-verse 1, audiovisual installation, 2019, DCI-4K DLP projector, computer, speakers, W10.24 x H5.4 m, photo: Julien Gremaud, courtesy of Audemars Piguet © Ryoji Ikeda, 2010
Figure 2 left top and bottom： Point of no return, audiovisual installation, 2018, DLP projectors, computer, speakers, dimensions variable, photo: Studio Hans Wilschut, courtesy of Eye Filmmuseum © Ryoji Ikeda, 2010
Figure 2 right：《符碼─詩》2018，影音裝置，概念、構圖：池田亮司，電腦圖形、程式設計：Tomonaga Tokuyama，3台DLP（數位光處理）投影機、電腦、揚聲器，尺寸依空間大小而定 © 池田亮司、臺北市立美術館
