Digital art collective teamLab is opening a unique outdoor experience in Osaka, Japan that uses elements like wind, rain and sun to create artworks.
For the new exhibit, which is based on the concept of environmental phenomena, teamLab has turned a demolished area of an Osaka Seikan can factory into grassland.
The permanent installation, titled ‘Field of Wind, Rain and Sun’, is opening in Osaka on 5 October and is part of a new cafe at the can factory.
Guests will see a selection of artworks created by the natural environment. For example, when the wind blows, an artwork appears in the sky. It shines when the sun comes out and glows when it sets.
At night, heavy rain becomes crystals of light floating in the sky. During the day, guests can climb a staircase and watch as the sun produces a circular rainbow of light as it rises to its highest point.
Another artwork features glowing glass rocks created using crushed glass from the furnaces of a factory.
Environmental phenomena
teamLab said in a press release: “Artworks do not exist independently but are created by the environment, which produces the various phenomena that cause the artworks to exist.
“Elements like air, water and light that permeate our daily lives are transformed by their environment into unique phenomena that will become the existence of art. The boundaries of that existence are ambiguous and continuous.”
It added: “Even if people break the artwork apart, the work will remain in existence as long as its environment is maintained. Conversely, if the environment is not maintained, the work will disappear.”
Earlier this year, the Middle East’s first teamLab Borderless museum opened in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Before that, Tokyo’s teamLab Borderless reopened in a new home in the Azabudai Hills complex.
Images courtesy of teamLab
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