Spatial Calligraphy, Infinity Circle | teamLab

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Spatial Calligraphy, Infinity Circle

Spatial Calligraphy is calligraphy drawn in space, a form of calligraphy that teamLab has been exploring since it was founded. The artwork reconstructs calligraphy in three dimensional space to express the depth, speed and power of the brush stroke, and that calligraphy is then flattened using the logical structure of space that teamLab calls Ultrasubjective Space. The calligraphy shifts between two and three dimensions.

For the people of Nagoya (the city where this artwork is in permanent display) the number eight signifies “expanding prosperity”. Particularly in ancient times it was used in Japan to express an undefined large quantity. If the number eight is turned on its side, it becomes the symbol for infinity, ∞. The number is also constructed from two circles; echoing a motif of the Zen ensou, a calligraphic circle created in a single brushstroke. In this work, the ∞ symbol is continuously drawn for eternity, and Shachihoko (mythical fish) leap out of the ink and begin to swim around.

The calligraphy is continuously drawn in real time using a computer program. It is not a playback of prerecorded images; new calligraphy is continuously created, without duplicating previous works. The works become brighter as the sun rises, then darken with the advent of sunset. The same calligraphy that is viewable one moment can never be seen again.

О teamLab

teamLab (f. 2001) is an international art collective that 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’s works are in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra;  Amos Rex, Helsinki; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul; and Asia Society Museum, New York, among others.

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