The Damien Hurst Exhibition had just opened and so the queues were horrendous. We did not attempt this exhibition but did get a picture of the children on 1 of his sculpts outside.
While queueing for tickets it was great to experience being in that vast space of the turbine hall again and we took some great pictures of the children running around.
KUSAMA.
I have wanted to see this exhibition for some time as I had heard her large scale installations were visually amazing.
Yayoi Kusama is perhaps Japan's best-known living artist.
She has worked obsessively since the 1940's developing a portfolio of paintings, sculpture, collage, drawing and installational work.She was a major player in the New York avant-garde scene in the 1960s and 1970's, associated with key developments in performance, minimalism and pop.
Going back to Japan in 1973 she has continued to produce her work, even though she now lives voluntarily in a hospital due to her physical and psychological vulnerability.
She has great attention to detail and some of her pieces are like textile repeat patterns.
She is fascinated with dots and luminosity and her first installation features a room covered with luminous multicoloured dots. It felt very bizarre to wander through this and the children enjoyed sitting amongst the dots on the furniture in the room.
We particularly liked her last installation room "Infinity Mirrored Room". THis explores her fascination with infinite space and she has used mirrors to reflect images which the person walks through as the lights change to different colour formations. It felt very weird walking through and it was very easy to become disorientated. We really enjoyed seeing these rooms in particular.
Visually great for the children to experience.
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