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The Material -Its Form and Spirit
落合陽一は新しいテクノロジーと素材を使う。しかしそのテクノロジーはアナログからデジタルまで、つまり古いものから新しいものまで多種多様である。ある作品ではシャボン玉に蝶々が羽ばたく。別の作品では「音」を素材とし、プラズマと戯れ、幻影を浮かび上がらせる。今回出品された作品は回転する彫刻である。この彫刻は浮かんでいて、重さを感じさせない。ある種のマジックである。彼が現代の魔術師とよばれているのも、むべなるかなである。
重力はいつも表現の敵である。物質は重力に打ち勝とうとする。落合の試みもそれを思い出させる。テクノロジーを用いて非重力、見えないエネルギーを現出させる。ここにアートとテクノロジーの出会いがある。素材は技術と出会って、アートとなる。
今回のインスタレーションの背景に使われているカーボンファイバーの黒い布も現代のテクノロジーの成果である。
In Tibetan Buddhism, there is a Buddhist tool called a maniwheel. It is said that spinning it has the same effect as praying words. As the maniwheel rotates in the landscape, it plays the words of prayer for reincarnation, reminding us of the harmony and transformation of the human soul and the landscape. This artwork is a sculpture that finds its inspiration there. And “borrowed scenery” is the principle of "incorporating background landscape into the composition of a garden" found in traditional East Asian garden design. This sculpture is a material mirror in the form of a wave. The apparatus is a material mirror, while it is a matter, defying gravity, and while it is a form, it is freed from its own form by reflection. The motions become part of the landscape transformer. These sculptures are supported by the integration of computer optimization calculations, fabrication technology, and magnetic technology. Waves are born in nature, in the ecosystem that we humans and the outside world create. Waves propagate. Forms receive waves. Forms transmit waves to intelligence. The intelligence drives the shapes through the waves. And again this creates waves. The intelligence converts the landscape into scenery. And the interaction between the intelligence and the waves creates another scene. Waves, matter, and intelligence. The linkage between them is beautiful. The undivided nature, the world, is a huge, single, holographic computing mechanism that uses natural waves. This work brings to the observer a new perception of the body connected to the landscape in both material and spirit.