 "Floating Time" series, installation view Tatsuo Miyajima Floating Time "Floating Time" is the latest work from Tatsuo Miyajima, one of the leading artists of his generation to emerge from Japan. Miyajima has risen to international recognition and acclaim for his exploration of time and our complex perception of it as a scientific and philosophical phenomenon. In the darkened upper and lower spaces of Entwistle, Miyajima presents "Floating Time" which builds on his earlier L.E.D. number works. "Floating Time" utilizes computer-controlled electronic numbers projected onto the surface of a series of low tables. The coloured numbers are continuously changing and counting from 1 to 9, each at its own set rhythm. Zero, which for Miyajima represents an end, is never used because for him time itself can never end. In these beautiful electronic works every sequence of numbers is predetermined but the complex movements and rhythms can appear spectacularly random and choreographed. Miyajima's installations, such as "Big Time" at the Hayward Gallery, London (1996), or his ground-breaking installation for the 1998 Venice Bienniale, have developed into a personal universe of beauty and logic that appears to relate to everything from the movement of world financial markets and the ordered chaos of city life to our own, more personal sense of mortality. Miyajima's visual presentation of time as a constant present and immediate past, is at once seductive, mesmerizing and relentless. In "Floating Time" time is not presented as a linear, universal fact, but an infinite and fluid expression of universal order. Tatsuo Miyajima was born in Tokyo in 1957. Ausstellungsdauer: 31.5. - 27.7.2002 Oeffnungszeiten: Di-Sa 10 - 17.30 Uhr Gallery Entwistle 6 Cork St GB-London W1S 3EE Telefon +44 20 7734 6440 E-Mail darren@entwistle.net |
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