20 June 2018
rita, aza, and tiwi at Museum MACAN
Yayoi Kusama
“Life is The Heart of a Rainbow”
12 May – 9 September 2018
at Museum MACAN
This place is very very popular on Instagram. It’s so popular that we
have to see it for ourselves :P
So we picked a date, June 20th. It was Ramadhan holiday (and
school holiday!) so we kinda expect it to be crowded.
I think most of the crowd visit the museum just to take a perfect picture for their Instagram feed, which is completely okay because I also do this, haha.
I think most of the crowd visit the museum just to take a perfect picture for their Instagram feed, which is completely okay because I also do this, haha.
But for me, there’s something more than an Instagram feed.
Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese contemporary artist, born in 1929. I saw her
famous pumpkin last year at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in
Washington DC and saw her “Flowers That Bloom Tomorrow” at Pullman Thamrin yesterday. Now
here I am, at Museum MACAN. Paying IDR100.000 to compete with the crowd to take
the best pictures for my Instagram feed, with the limited time of 2 hours :D
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| "Flowers That Bloom Tomorrow" at Pullman Thamrin |
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| "Pumpkin" at Hishhorn Museum |
"pumpkins bring about poetic peace in my mind. pumpkins talk to me."
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| at Museum MACAN |
I love the bright colours of her works.
Love love the mirror/infinity rooms.
And I especially like one of her earlier work, ‘’self portrait’’.
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| "Self Portrait" |
About Yayoi Kusama
(from Wikipedia)
“.. and in 1977
Kusama checked herself into the Seiwa Hospital for the Mentally Ill, where she
eventually took up permanent residence. She has been living at the hospital
since, by choice. Her studio, where she has continued to produce work
since the mid-1970s, is a short distance from the hospital in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Kusama
is often quoted as saying: "If it were not for art, I would have killed
myself a long time ago.”
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| "Pollen" |
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| "Matahari" |
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| "Marilyn Monroe" |
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| "Narcissus Garden" |
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| the queue to take picture |
About the Infinity Mirrors from
by Sarah Boxer
“Infinity Mirrors”
offers the chance to capture the lonely existential experience of infinity and
send it to others as a selfie.”
By
offering up to the public the solo art experience that was once her own private
world—a primal and personal space for looking and healing and thinking about
one’s own place in the cosmos—and then by also allowing selfies in it, Kusama
has created the perfect art experience for the social-media age.
Her shows
are crowded because, as many viewers will tell you, you really do have to see
these works in person to appreciate them. No photograph, however good, can
deliver that existential jolt of being there, seeing yourself repeated ad
infinitum. At the same time, Instagram is helping to drive Kusama’s popularity;
it is the means by which people advertise to the world that they are among the
precious few who have had this lonely experience of being one dot among
millions. The visual proof has helped propel Kusama’s work to the forefront of
destination art in its latest form.
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| the queue to enter the infinity room |
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