It was a thursday or friday and with some recession related free time on my hands I went down to the recession friendly Museum of Contemporary art in Circular quay to check it out and see what I could see. An exhibition showing by artist Yayoi Kasuma or Kusama (No idea who that is, is she famous?) called the Mirrored years was on. I didn't expect much from my maiden visit to the MCA but it turned out to be a quite the thought provoking play date. The exhibition was mainly based on installations as opposed to paintings, which is awesome since the best painting I ever did was mis-interpreted as an umbrella (yeah it was a boat). One of the installations which is pictured (taken from Yayoi's website) actually made me feel an emotion! I know isn't that impressive! The huge room was filled with Inflatable "clouds" that were black rubber boat material blobs with white painted on. The environment was so far removed conventional Museum spaces, and anything I had experienced and it was hard not to be taken away by it all. It showed a tension between the fluffy bubbliness of clouds, and the dark ominous feelings they can bring before a storm an emotion that I experience as I walked through. Pretty rad and arty hey!
It made me think of how aspects of design ellicit an emotional response. No doubt they tell you this in the first lecture of Design 1001, but it parrallels the way which literature is designed to do the same a notion I am familiar with from doing English at Uni.
Apparently my Post's are too long
1 comment:
An umbrella misinterpreted as a boat is the ultimate waterproofing - from below and above!
Your posts aren't too long...they're too awesome.
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