Self-named "ultratechnologists" for their use of technology as a tool to expand our knowledge and experience, the collective teamLab wants to expand the possibilities of art through the digital and generate new ways of relating to the environment through their works.
The artists that make up teamLab are the ultimate exponents of a radically contemporary visual language and an unprecedented level of technology, where the influence of ancient Japanese culture is evident in all their work. Far from being a paradox, tradition and innovation coexist in a totally organic way.
1. Black Waves: Lost, Immersed and Reborn (2016) is the installation that occupies much of the exhibition. Inspired by Japanese artistic tradition, its waves are reminiscent of The Great Wave of Kanagawa painted by Hokusai in 1830.
After calculating the interaction of thousands of particles with each other, a computer-generated 3D space expresses its movement in a large mass of water that gives rise to a continuous wave. The resulting space generates an attraction in the viewer who feels immersed in the force of the waves and is part of a whole in the same way as these particles do. It incorporates more than thirty projections in an area of reflective walls and floors generating a powerful immersive effect where the visual recreation of water, as a key element of the natural environment and life, plays a leading role.
2. Flutter of Butterflies, Born from Hands, (2019). An interactive piece where butterflies emerge, flutter and disappear through the visitors' contact.
The work responds to the interaction of the public, which when touching the walls makes appear or disappear hundreds of butterflies suggesting with this action the fragile balance between human beings and nature. The work also evolves in real time, in a continuous transformation that depends on the environment and makes the beautiful patterns generated by the butterflies never repeat. With this piece, teamLab manages to transcend the physical and temporal limits of conventional art. Thanks to the masterful use of digital resources, teamLab not only manages to present a work in permanent evolution that overflows the space, but also establishes a link between the people who contemplate it, inasmuch as the action of each spectator affects the result of the piece.
3. Enso - Cold Light, (2017) is a reinterpretation of the Zen practice of painting a thick circle with a single brushstroke.
In a desire to investigate the roots of Japanese culture from a contemporary language, teamLab has worked since its inception around traditional calligraphy, evolving it into what they call spatial calligraphy. The depth, speed and force contained in the stroke of a brushstroke on the paper are intensified in an extraordinary way by turning it into a three-dimensional form in movement. In Zen, enso symbolises illumination, force, elegance, the universe and emptiness; and the circle, the moment when the mind is liberated so that the body or spirit can create. Suspending the ink circle in space in such a way that the gaze can traverse it from different points of view, the observer practically feels himself fused with the stroke.
The artists that make up teamLab are the ultimate exponents of a radically contemporary visual language and an unprecedented level of technology, where the influence of ancient Japanese culture is evident in all their work. Far from being a paradox, tradition and innovation coexist in a totally organic way.
1. Black Waves: Lost, Immersed and Reborn (2016) is the installation that occupies much of the exhibition. Inspired by Japanese artistic tradition, its waves are reminiscent of The Great Wave of Kanagawa painted by Hokusai in 1830.
After calculating the interaction of thousands of particles with each other, a computer-generated 3D space expresses its movement in a large mass of water that gives rise to a continuous wave. The resulting space generates an attraction in the viewer who feels immersed in the force of the waves and is part of a whole in the same way as these particles do. It incorporates more than thirty projections in an area of reflective walls and floors generating a powerful immersive effect where the visual recreation of water, as a key element of the natural environment and life, plays a leading role.
2. Flutter of Butterflies, Born from Hands, (2019). An interactive piece where butterflies emerge, flutter and disappear through the visitors' contact.
The work responds to the interaction of the public, which when touching the walls makes appear or disappear hundreds of butterflies suggesting with this action the fragile balance between human beings and nature. The work also evolves in real time, in a continuous transformation that depends on the environment and makes the beautiful patterns generated by the butterflies never repeat. With this piece, teamLab manages to transcend the physical and temporal limits of conventional art. Thanks to the masterful use of digital resources, teamLab not only manages to present a work in permanent evolution that overflows the space, but also establishes a link between the people who contemplate it, inasmuch as the action of each spectator affects the result of the piece.
3. Enso - Cold Light, (2017) is a reinterpretation of the Zen practice of painting a thick circle with a single brushstroke.
In a desire to investigate the roots of Japanese culture from a contemporary language, teamLab has worked since its inception around traditional calligraphy, evolving it into what they call spatial calligraphy. The depth, speed and force contained in the stroke of a brushstroke on the paper are intensified in an extraordinary way by turning it into a three-dimensional form in movement. In Zen, enso symbolises illumination, force, elegance, the universe and emptiness; and the circle, the moment when the mind is liberated so that the body or spirit can create. Suspending the ink circle in space in such a way that the gaze can traverse it from different points of view, the observer practically feels himself fused with the stroke.
