I have just decided that Yayoi Kusama is one of my favourite artists. There’s something about her that really fascinates me.
After I had lunch with a few people and did some enrolment things in North Sydney, I went to the MCA to check out the new exhibitions for a few hours.
Yayoi Kusama is fucking brilliant.
Her exhibition ends June 8th so I’m going to try and go there a few more times.
I wandered into the mirrored room (‘Fireflies on Water’) and a lady tells me “just stay on the platform, there’s water everywhere” so I say okay, then I look around as she closes the door. I’m in there for a few minutes listening to Air on my ipod then I start thinking the whole room is moving and that the platform I was standing on was sinking. I walked back and tried to open the door but it didn’t work (it was locked or something.) So I thought ‘holy shit, I’m getting transported to another planet/space’ and stayed in there for a couple of minutes until a man knocks on the door, opens it and smiles.
This is the infinity room. click.
After going into the room with the UV lights, I sat down and looked at the giant screen prints and they started to move.
Yay, insanity is back.
Yayoi Kusama kind of disappeared from the art world for a while after she checked herself in to a psychiatric institution in the early 70’s (she still resides there now). I will now research anything and everything about Yayoi Kusama and will tell people random facts whenever I feel like it.
Oh yes, I forgot. The other exhibition there was I Walk The Line: New Australian Drawing. Very amazing and impressive. There was nothing I didn’t like in the entire gallery.
Some works included:
Cassandra Laing
Laith McGregor
Patrick Hartigan
!!!
2 Comments
March 25, 2009 at 7:37 PM
i LOVE kusama
April 15, 2009 at 1:57 PM
Hey Annie. Hope all is well.
I went to see the Yayoi Kusama exhibition yesterday and in the ‘Fireflies on Water’ room, this woman next to me got vertigo when she looked down and almost fainted on my friend. Arrgghh!