

Sakamoto believes that these forces, to a degree, are alsoĬontained within the vessel of this instrument, and can therefore express new Our environment, including this piano, along its journey from land to sea andīack to land again. Piano represents the uncontrollable forces of nature that have shaped and molded The tsunami from the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. Shiro Takatani, which incorporates a piano that was washed up on the shore after Installation view, water state 1, 2013, Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani, ‘seeing sound, hearing time’, courtesy M WOODS HUTONG, Beijing, 2021.Įxample is the work Is Your Time (2017), made in collaboration with Within a physical space as an ideal means of sharing music and sound.

Sakamoto’s concept of ‘installation music’, in which the artist and hisĬollaborators have designed environments for audiences to experience sound Parts of the intangible world that were imperceptible to us before, through aīlend of audio and visual languages.
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Orchestra (YMO) to his current activist work on climate change, SakamotoĬontinues to radically transform the way we think about creative practice andĪs the title of this exhibition suggests, the survey offersĪudiences a series of unique multi-sensory spaces that open up and describe Was awarded both an Oscar and a Grammy in 1988, and his influence on theĭevelopment of electronic music through the Japanese band Yellow Magic Late 1970s, he has played a key role in redefining the intersection between soundĪnd art in Japan and internationally. Sakamoto believes that technology is the key to remaining aware of the world in Installation view, IS YOUR TIME, 2017, Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani, ‘seeing sound, hearing time’, courtesy M WOODS HUTONG, Beijing, 2021. Or an art exhibition, while proposing different ways of understanding the world Works and sound installations that redefine how we experience an album of music The exhibition is Sakamoto’sįirst institutional solo show in China, and centres around eight key large-scale To Japanese composer and artist Ryuichi Sakamoto. To present the largest and most comprehensive survey exhibition to date devoted With collaborative works by Shiro Takatani | Daito Manabe | Zakkubalan |Ĭurated by Sachiko Namba, Victor Wang, Zhang YoudaiĮxhibition Dates: March 2021 - August 8, 2021
