Yayoi Kusama's Box of Mirrors

Some of her work are quite hard to understand.There is this gross repetitive installation of polka-dots gigantic tentacles that do nothing but provoke a negative sensation.  "My Flower Bed", that has been part of the  permanent exposition at the Musée National d'Art Modern, in my opinion, is icky, dusty, and definitely anything but neither flower nor bed.  None of her last canvas designs attract me, it's, again, repetitive. Disliked everything about it. It's just gross.  

And if I haven't visit this last installation, I'd definitely swear on the guestbooks.  

Before exiting, the way was guided to enter this wall and ceiling mirrored room filled with hundreds of lightbulbs. She started this infinity room in the middle of her career in 1965 and soon develop the same concept with different objects, colors, and themes. 

I came into this room and I felt alone, outside, during the night.  And while gazing to the furthest direction I saw this alluring immense constellation with its blinking stars that softly change its color every couple of second. Long enough for me to admire, but fast enough to end one imagination and restart another one.  It is impossible to decide for oneself but to submit to this indulgence.

I tried to capture every pallets but it is almost impossible to do that.  With quite a series of photos and angles I hope you can somehow share my experience.

Which leads me home smiling ear to ear. I didn't forget to leave beautiful words on the guestbook. Thank you Yayoi Kusama, you have made my day!  

Sixth Floor at the Museum

 Until January 9th next year, I imagine the 6th floor at the Centre George Pompidou would be packed with the admirers of Edvard Munch. As that was the case on my last visit.  I was positively hoping to see the scream, and its different versions.  But even with the absent of this most famous painting I feel so much consumed by his dramatic way of explaining everything. I personally adore the versions of the sick child, the vampire, and the immense series of the crying girl.  My favorite, thank's to the pallette, is the Avenue in the Snow.  Despite of the topics he is interested in: the dramas, the bloody images and the tragedies, this impressionnist artist never stops seeing beautiful colors. Bravo! 

Awww.. you don't expect me to take pictures from the gallery, do you? I'm not allowed, sorry.  But here, our capture from the museum, just from the balcon of the 6th floor: a comedian who try to slow-motion a murder scene.  Quite impressive compared to other performance artist I've seen from the same area, I stayed more than ten minutes to find out if he failed to stab his victim.  

And Ahhhh, Paris... take my breath away, as always..There were a lot of drama in the sky that day but that makes it more gorgeous. Isn't it?

And Finally, a sneak peak of my latest inspiration.  I hope you don't think that I came to Centre George Pompidou only for Edvard Munch, because I also took a peak at the south gallery and found the work of art that have been inspiring me these last seven days.  Fortunately, oh I feel so fortunately, we are allowed to take several photos in the gallery, and the photo above is one of them.  I'll talk about it more on my next post. In the meantime, have a good day!

Centre George Pompidou exposition: Blobterre and Green Attitude

Look what I found in the mail this morning. Invitation!

Since we have laissez-passer for this museum, me and D are by default invited to the opening of every expositions.  I am not sure how many invitations were sent to us, but amongst those we just happened to come to one, by accident.  It was memorable, there was a techno show, and lots of old video games, like tetris and pacman, laying around in the room to be operated in a different way. Too bad that I couldn't remember the name of the exhibition, but I promise I'll find it out. 

I would love to come to all of them but there are always things that stops me from going.  This brings us wondering do we really don't have time or is it us who are reluctant to meet people? 

You probably already guessed what we'll do with this invitation. But hopefully this time we have a stronger reason, for the night of October the 8th 2011 we'll be dining and celebrating our wedding with our family and friends.  In anyway, enjoy your weekend! <3