Ryoji Ikeda

Montreal

DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art currently presents Ryoji Ikeda’s first survey exhibition in North America. A fascinating and troubling poet of the digital age, Ikeda’s profound investigations in sound, time, and space have their basis in mathematical methods which result in works of spare, sublime, if occasionally ear-splitting, beauty. Spanning the microscopic to the infinite, his performances, installations, and artworks variously produce sine waves, sound pulses, pixels of light, and numerical data—sometimes in extraordinary combinations. The artist has conceived a conceptual counterpoint between DHC/ART’s two buildings: the main space displays framed works, light boxes, sculptural works, and works on paper under the rubric systematics. In the Satellite space Ikeda presents audiovisual projects, orchestrated as a symphonic whole, from the datamatics series which tests the limits of perception by visualizing the invisible data streams which permeate our world.

Japan’s leading electronic composer and visual artist, Ryoji Ikeda has gained a reputation as one of the few international artists working convincingly across both visual and sonic media. He elaborately orchestrates sound, visuals, materials, physical phenomena, and mathematical notions into immersive live performances and installations.

DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art

June 14th – November 18th, 2012
451 & 465, St-Jean Street
Montreal, Quebec H2Y 2R5
Canada

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