AMSTERDAM.- This autumn, Ryoji Ikeda, visual artist and a key figure in the world of electronic music, created a spectacular presentation specially for Eye. He filled the exhibition gallery with his overwhelmingly immersive audiovisual artworks, which are based on elementary phenomena such as silence, space, time and infinity. Ikeda’s work often depicts the invisible structures and data that shape our lives. In his mind-expanding art, Ikeda features images of pixels as well as the universe: the very smallest and the very biggest come together.

A visual artist and a key figure in the world of electronic music, Ryoji Ikeda (born in 1966 in Giifu, Japan) is known for his overwhelming live performances and mind-expanding audiovisual installations. Ikeda is compiling a spectacular presentation for Eye that will immerse visitors in images and sounds.

In creating his minimalist and breathtaking art, Ikeda draws on mathematical concepts, quantum mechanics, data, sound and light, transforming them into works of intangible power and beauty. His pieces often capture the invisible structures and data that shape our lives. With mathematical precision, he reduces sounds and images to their essence in stunning installations, overwhelming viewers with a visual bombardment of barcodes and pixels. In 2014, Ikeda won the Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN.

Among the works on show at Eye is the radar [3WUXGA version A], (2018/2014). In this huge magical projection, sublime abstract compositions alternate with images from a microscope and a telescope, pictures of faraway places, and maps of moons and weather charts.

data.scan (2009) translates data from scientific studies that map both the human body and the astronomic universe.

point of no return (2018) is a new work made by Ikeda for Eye. It shows a black hole containing huge quantities of information, while the wall behind shows a very bright white hole. Ikeda: “Technically simple, but this new piece will be my most metaphysical work.”

For Eye, Ikeda is also developing a black version of 4'33" [black] (2018), a tribute to the composition 4'33’’ by John Cage and an elegant depiction of Cage’s philosophical meditation on the impossibility of silence.

data.tron [3 SXGA+ version] (2009-2018) is projected onto a giant screen on which you can experience the vast universe of data in the endless space between 0 and 1. How many dots are there in a line? How many numbers are there?