ST. GALLEN.- Time and space are recurring themes in the work of the Japanese artist, Tatsuo Miyajima. The basis for the art of Tatsuo Miyajima (born 1957 in Tokyo, lives in Ibaraki) are illuminated LED displays in color. In various tempos, these displays count relentlessly from 1 to 9, only to start again from the beginning. The electronic look of the LED digits is, however, less the expression of a positivist technological understanding and more a symbol of ongoing life: an existential number. Only the zero is left out, since, to the artist, it is synonymous with standstill and death. Though for almost twenty years not honored in any large exhibition in Switzerland, Tatsuo Miyajima is considered the major contemporary artist of his native country. Since his first appearance in 1988 at the special exhibit Aperto ’88 within the framework of the 43rd Biennale in Venice, invitations to other biennials have flowed in: among others, to Taipei