YAYOI KUSAMA @ MCA

Took my Year 12 class to ARTEXPRESS last week and after they were finished "being intimidated" by some of the beautiful and innovative work there we moved on to the MCA.

We went to see the Simryn Gill exhibition (and it was very good) but then we had about 25 mins to spare, so we visited the Mirrored Years by Yayoi Kusama and it was FANTASTIC!!

The perfect "upnote" to end the excursion on. Some of the exhibits have been shown here before, but the mirrored room (Fireflies on Water) and the room covered in fluoro dots have to be seen to be appreciated!

The students were very impressed and it doesn't hurt that she is part of our next case study! If you have a chance to visit, you won't be disappointed. At the MCA Sydney until 8th June 2009.

Working across different media and forms that include painting, collage, sculpture, installation and film, as well as performance and its documentation, Kusama creates works that reveal a fixation with repetition, pattern and accumulation. Describing herself as an “obsessive artist”, her work is intensely sensual, infused with autobiographical, psychological and sexual content.

From MCA website

Image from Time Out Sydney (review there too).

Enjoy
KP:)