accumulation

The activities taking place behind the scenes in museums have been as important as the modes of the display in public areas.
There is the interesting contrast between revealing and concealing as illustrated in the common museum process of choosing to exhibit one object while keeping others in reserve storage.  The establishment of systems of organization is as instinctive to human nature as is the accumulation and collecting, and artists frequently imitate the institutional practise of creating inventories and archives as part of a working progress.

putman, j. /2001/ art and artifact the museum as medium

thames & hudson, london

yayoi kusama dotted hallucinations

Yayoi's work originates from hallucinations and obsessional

images that she plagues into sculptures and paintings.

Her personal life can be read through her work, which she

feels no obligations to keep private but rather expose in

kind of therapeutic way letting it posses her surroundings.

At first glance her art can be read with humour as it holds 

cartoon element and is expressed in rainbow of colour not

commonly associated with mental illnesses /the author

herself admitted of having and been hospitalized in 1975/

but in extensive compulsion through scale and

repetition that gives a hint of her chaotic self.

 self-obliteration by dots /detail/ 1968

 yayoi kusama performance documented with

black/white photographs by hal reif

mirror room /pumpkin/ 1991

  

infinity room/love forever 1994

aftermath of obliteration of eternity 2009

silver shoes /24 pairs/

 

baby carriage 1964

silver dress 1976

Self Obliteration /Part 1/ 1967

 

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