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10/10/2008

Ryoji Ikeda & Benedict Gross

Le Laboratoire, Paris

Le Laboratoire is pleased to present, for the first time in Europe, a personal exhibition of the Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda, a major figure of the sound and visual electronic scene. From his correspondence with the American mathematician Benedict Gross, he has conceived a work where the definition of the sublime blends with the immateriality of infinity. Welcome to a world of millimeter precision.

"As an artist/composer, my intention is always polarized by concepts of "the beautiful and the sublime". To me, beauty is crystal; rationality, precision, simplicity, elegance, delicacy. The sublime is infinity; infinitesimal, immensity, indescribable, ineffable. The purest beauty is the world of mathematics. Its perfect assemblage amongst numbers, magnitudes and forms persist despite us. The aesthetic experience of the sublime in mathematics is awe-inspiring. It is similar to the experience we have when we confront the vast magnitude of the universe, which always leaves us openmouthed. The aim of this project is to engage in dialogue with the mathematician Benedict Gross and other number theorists to find a common language on aesthetics." Ryoji Ikeda

In partnership with Festival d'Automne à Paris,
With the support of Nomura, Fondation Franco-Japonaise Sasakawa and Fondation pour l'étude de la langue et de la civilisation japonaises acting under the aegis of la Fondation de France.
Within the framework of 150th anniversary of French-Japanese relationships

Le Laboratoire
Conceived and initiated by the Franco-American scientist and writer David Edwards, Le Laboratoire is a ONE YEAR OLD experimental art and design centre located in the heart of Paris. Here artists and designers conceive and develop ideas in collaboration with scientists working at the cutting edge of science today.

These 'experiments' produce unconventional art and design exhibitions that reflect the work-in-progress nature of the creative process. Through exhibition we invite the public into this analytical and intuitive, deductive and inductive creative process that is shared by artists and scientists alike. We call this artscience, an institution-agnostic process underpinning cultural, industrial, humanitarian, and educational kinds of innovation

Image: mention obligatoire data.tron © 2007 Ryoji Ikeda, photo by Kazuo Fukunaga (courtesy of Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media)

Press contact:
Valérie Abrial valerie.abrial@lelaboratoire.org +33 (0)1 78094955 +33 (0)6 84379623

Le Laboratoire
4 rue du Bouloi 75001 Paris
Exhibitions are opened from Friday to Monday, 12am 7pm

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Louvre Rivoli and Palais-Royal / Musée du Louvre

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