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How much is the influence of genuine darkness and a flash to human mental state and physiology?
Oya quarry’s underground has large darkness space. Programmed strobe lights project turning shadows of visitors. They even feel a sense of floating by simultaneous blinking of all strobe lights in the second half of the program.
Photo by kazumasa Sako
“Suuko” 1997 13 Sep.-12 Oct. OYA Stone Musium (Tochigi Utsunomiya)
A sensor of plastic scintillator has been set up in this gallery to visualize the cosmic ray. The cosmic ray falls on the earth from the cosmos all the time.
Green light-emitting diodes (“LED”) go out when plastic scintillator reacts to the cosmic ray, and their silhouettes remain. After a while, LED gradually begins to radiate their light. A thousand of LED repeat going on and off because countless cosmic rays come flying to our surroundings.
Birth and disappearance of the cosmos and lives are expressed in this work by using. The cosmic rays coming from explosion of supernovas. My intention is to tell about the world newly opened by science to people’s mind from an artistic point of view.
*Scintillator, photomal, amplifier, LED, neon, cloth for tent.
*3600x1600x200mm
Photo by Koichi Hayakawa
Photo by Kazumasa Sako
“Catching the Light”1997 21 Nov.-23 Dec. O Art Museum (Tokyo)
The cosmic ray is one of invisible radiation and go through our bodies 200 for second. This system change the cosmic ray into weak light at the moment scintillator senses it. Visitors noticed they are surrounded in many twinkling rays when their eyes become accustomed to seeing in the dark space about 10 minutes after entering the gallery.
*Material – plastic Scintillator, Fiber glass, L.E.D. strobe light
Photo by Kazumasa Sako
” GORUND Vol.2 ” 1996 1-13 Jul. GALLERY KOBAYASHI (Tokyo Ginza)
For daytime, many mirrors reflect some scenes, and from evening, inside neon lamps turn on a light to correspond traffic. Artificial lights and daylight are combined to match with surroundings in this art product.
These neon lamps repeat to fade in and to fade out slowly. Blue neon lamps turn on a light from 5 p.m., and all neon lamps give off beautiful lights and colors like breathing at 8:30 p.m.
Photo by Kazumasa Sako
1996 (Tokyo Toshima)
A blue neon line of this “Luminous Map” express Akebono Street in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, and other geometrical pattern signify some facilities of government office.
While the “Reflection” on the West Side shows direct neon light, on the East Side all lights are indirect in the “Luminous Map”.
Photo by Kazumasa Sako
1996 (Tokyo Toshima)
I made life environment with light and water in underground space of darkness, and grew plants for one month. The temperature was kept usually at 11°C.
*Neon, mercury-vapor lamp, the artificial ground (barley).
*2500x9000x200mm
Photo by Kazumasa Sako
” hari-no-kairo ” 1995 17 Sep.-8 Oct.OYA Stone Musium (Tochigi Utsunomiya)
Domestic exhibition for L’EAU D’ISSEY (water of ISSEY), perfume for men.
“Flow, Water, Light, Wind, and Scent”.
20 bottles of perfume are placed on the windows of 20m-length steel box. Each bottle is lighted up with an inside FL lamp of the box and a Halogen-spotlight from the ceiling. The basic light is sun streaming through the leaves of the trees to the floor and the wall. Day light changed gradually from morning with the sun movement. Simultaneously, drift of people and flow of fragrance created good atmosphere of the hall.
1995 Exhibition of L’EAU D’ ISSEY POUR HOMME
Good darkness spread in Oya-quarry. Several works of lighting and light are placed there.
Photo by Kazumasa Sako
” ruri-no-tengai ” 1994 18 Sep.-2 Oct.OYA Stone Musium (Tochigi Utsunomiya)
This is installation of neon lamps to visualize sounds. A microphone of outside of the gallery picks up a noise of a city and the neon lamps change their colors corresponding for range of noise.
TISEA (The Third International Symposium on Electronic Art)
1992 11.9-11.13 The Performance S
The theme of Tateyama Museum in Toyama prefecture designed by architect Kijyo Rokkaku is heaven and hell in the religion in a mountain. The museum shows us that world not by exhibition, but by telling to visitors’ mind with space, light, scent and sound. The lighting is completely programmed and many kinds of light sources are used for it.
Tateyama Museum(Toyama Tateyama)
