Art Works

Revelation-Instalation by the cosmic rays

-Perpendicular-2002
Although I’m nothing but a mediator to visualize a natural phenomena, through this activity I indulges myself in contemplation. Even I sometimes experience that an uneasiness feeling which we feel before an unpredictable light cycle will change to an easiness feeling. I suppose the reason is that we feel the existence of the space, but moreover, we feel the meaning or the will for our existence though the work. 
In the work “Perpendicular”, I have made a situation that spectators can face to the energy lines. Those 256 red LED disappear as soon as the cosmos light reaches to them.

-Parallel-2002
Audience is led to an adjacent room through a small square tunnel opening to a red-colored room. There, they will find a darkened space with two mirrors, one on the ceiling and the other on the floor, to invite them to the world of infinite reflection.
They are enclosed within blue gleaming beams infinitely stretching high upwards and deep downward.
One event triggers a totally contrary consequence, but one is not allowed to see the two opposing phenomena simultaneously.
The universe inherently has such structural contradiction.

-Parallel-2002
Audience is led to an adjacent room through a small square tunnel opening to a red-colored room. There, they will find a darkened space with two mirrors, one on the ceiling and the other on the floor, to invite them to the world of infinite reflection.
They are enclosed within blue gleaming beams infinitely stretching high upwards and deep downward.

One event triggers a totally contrary consequence, but one is not allowed to see the two opposing phenomena simultaneously.
The universe inherently has such structural contradiction.

Chiba City Museum of Art 2002.9.Apr – 2.Jun

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Blue atmosphere

The earth is protected from the sun wind, radiation and ultraviolet rays. They are weaken the magnetic field and the atmosphere. When they reach to the ground, the cosmic ray is not an exception and turns into muon without harm for life. 

Thin and blue atmosphere has protected lives as the skin of the earth from the past to the present.

Scintillator, blue LED, steel

6500x200x2700(h) mm

Photo by Mareo Suemasa

1999. GALLERY KOBAYASHI (Tokyo Ginza)

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Appearance and Disappearance ’98

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.

L’OREAL Prize (L’OREAL Art and Science Foundation)

*Scintillator, photomal, amplifier, LED, neon, cloth for tent. 

*3600x1600x200mm

Photo by Kazumasa Sako

“Appearance and Disappearance” 1998 GALLERY KOBAYASHI (Tokyo Ginza)

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Shadow

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)

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GROUND-Appearance and Disappearance

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)

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GROUND-Vol.2

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)

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Rebirth

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)

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Light from the noise sound

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

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