Ryoji Ikeda seen by…

You might know the Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda for his amazing installations, all monumental, which feed on computer data transformed into clever sound and visual signals. Exhibited at La Villette, the Almine Rech Gallery, or the Center Pompidou, they all reveal the artist’s penchant for mathematics, the cosmos and the infinite. At the 58th Venice Biennale, we discovered his Data-Verse, an immersive installation put together with the support of the Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet, using data from NASA and the European Organization for Nuclear Research. During an “Beyond Watchmaking” exhibition the Swiss company revealed a new release. These specialists present Ryoji Ikeda, his journey and his unique work.

Interviews by Audrey Levy

Chus Martinez, Spanish art critic, director of the Art Institute of the FHNW Academy of Arts and Design, in Basel What are Ryoji Ikeda’s particularities? The uniqueness of his work is based on the way he mixes a reflection on both mathematics and the cosmos. He creates true technological symphonies in which numbers are converted into musical notes and lights in a philosophical way. The ultimate idea in his work is to establish a link between the different scales of what coexists in the universe, from the infinitely small to the infinitely large. His works are, so to speak, collections or treatises on how humans try to understand and dominate the world around them, on how we must learn to reconsider ourselves in front of many other forms of life…

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