Tatsuo Miyajma

Tatsuo Miyajma was born in Tokyo in 1957, Graduated in 1984 in oil painting from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. In 2006 he became the vice president of Tohoku University of Art & Design.

Tatsuo ideas are based on Buddhist philosophy. A lot of his artwork deals with time and eternity. He expresses his artwork through mechanism . He uses time as way to understand the human desire to understand the nature of time.

Clock for 300 thousand Years

Light Emitting Diode, IC,electric wire, line tape, etc.
173 x 630 x 5cm
1987


Counter Spiral

Light Emitting Diode, IC, electric wire, steel.
310 x 61 ¢cm
2000


HOTO

L.E.D., IC controller, electric wire,
specular finished stainless steel, mirror glass, prexi glass
549×Ø208cm
2008


Mega Death

L.E.D., IC, electric wire, light sensor
500 x 3400 x 1.8 cm
1999
Photo: Norihiro Ueno
Courtesy of Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery