Japanese composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda has conceived an exhibition for the Hamburger Bahnhof that, for the first time, compositionally unites the two symmetrical halls on the upper level of the museum’s east and west wings.
The exhibition’s title “db” (abbr. for decibel) refers to this symmetry while simultaneously indicating the complementary relationship between the two exhibition spaces.
Ikeda has designed the white room and the black room as counterparts, not only physically (brightness, color), but also conceptually and perceptually.
The project is a composition in which time and space are shaped through the most minimal use of sound, light and visual elements. It is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Germany.
Since the mid-1990s, Ryoji Ikeda has been among the foremost international composers and artists in the realm of cutting-edge digital technologies and their integration into visual and acoustic presentations.
His works are based on spatiotemporal compositions in which the musical and visual material is reduced to a minimum: sine waves, sound pulses, pixels of light and numerical data.
He investigates sound, time and space on the basis of mathematical methods and transforms them in his concerts and installations into an intense experience for the audience.
Photos by courtesy of Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (Top / Foto: Ryuichi Maruo) & Freunde Guter Musik Berlin (Middle and bottom / Fotos: Uwe Walter).
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“Ryoji Ikeda – DB” Exhibition
presented by Freunde Guter Musik
Saturday, 28 January 2012 – Monday, 09 April 2012
Hamburger Bahnhof | Invalidenstraße 50-51 | 10557 Berlin/Mitte
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