“Everything changes.
Everything keeps going on forever.
Everything is interacted with each other.” – Tatsuo Miyajima
Pile Up Life No1
LED, Firebrick, Mortar, Electric Wire, Power Supply Transformer, Wooden Pallet.
2010
Mega Death
L.E.D., IC, electric wire, light sensor
1999
Far Line 38
LED, Electric Wire,
2008
Far Line 38
LED, Electric Wire,
2008
Floating Time
Installation
2000
Pile UP LIfe
Installation View, Lisson Gallery
2010
“Tatsuo Miyajima is one of the most significant artists to have emerged during the tumultuous late 1980s, as part of an overall transformation within contemporary art from an expressionist paradigm to one more closely related to the conceptual orientation of the artwork. In purely historical terms, Miyajima’s importance as a figure is linked to the totality with which he embraced a very simple methodology, counting, to express his ideas about a profound and elusive subject, time… Far from fetishising the role of technology in daily life, [he] invites us to see through its illusions and to construct for ourselves a more sceptical attitude toward the ways in which time is experienced.” [extract : Dan Cameron : The Place of Time – text]
Beginning with number one (Miyajima never employs zero) he continues with endless counting using a network of digital LED devices and mirrored surfaces.
“He has understood the profound and dramatic sense of the temporal continuum, its numerical progression that tends toward infinity, since it is outside the reach of the circumstantial existence of the individual… What never fails to appear is the pause, the interstice that separates the number, and that lets it advance towards the future.” [extract : Achille Boniti Oliva : The Deluge of Time – text]
Though not strictly associated with any one generation, historical comparisons could be made not only with ‘On Kawara’ in particular, but also Fontana, Beuys and Mondrian. These references, evident throughout his ouevre, make him a fluid bridge between East and West… philosophy and technology, painting and installation, performance and social event.
“In the end, Tatsuo Miyajima’s is the painting of time on the surface of space.”
[extract : Lisson Gallery : press release]
Tatsuo Miyajima : Lisson Gallery
Azurebumble 
I like very much!
So do I!
Interesting work, and the photos of it show it very well!