Gallery Koyanagi features art works by Ryoji Ikeda, the representative electronic music composer and artist in Japan. 

Ikeda started music work since 1990. After 1995, he has announced sound art works through a concert and installation actively. By studying physical characteristics of ultrasonic and frequency and peoples perception surrounding time and space, and trying digital technology to the utmost limit, Ikeda's work pursued an unprecedented  experience to us. Beyond media, Ikeda shows various types of collaboration with William Forsythe (choreographer), Toyo Ito (architect), Hiroshi Sugimoto (contemporary artist) and so on. 

This is the second solo exhibition at Gallery Koyanagi and he announces new series 'systematics' already showed at DHC /ART for the first time in Japan.  Such as  punch card using a computer in the initial stage and a piano roll for automatic playing piano, he put recovering medium in the past into an elaborate light box and exhibit archeology of record. Rather than innate meanings of the painted punch card in black and the piano roll, a beauty of dense hole pattern  through strong light of the box is emphasized. Also 'datamatics' series Ikeda has worked since 2006 transforms massive material into color and monochrome micro film and tries to put archives of accumulated data into the box as well. 

Courtesy of Gallery Koyanagi