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Contemporary Art, Painting, Sculpture

Yayoi Kusama, “I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers”

David Zwirner Gallery, New York, May 11 – Friday, July 21, 2023

Yayoi Kusama is one of Japanese Pop-Art’s leading lights, combining monumental works with a minimal, feminist, and conceptual blend of sculpture and painting. Her signature gesture is a field of dots, in the case of this show applied to monumental abstracted squash / biomorphic shapes. The effects range from bland to transcendent.

The New York Times comments on her instagram-perfect immersive scenarios:

“It’s a beautiful effect. (Or it was for me, alone in the room; you’ll be sharing the experience with up to three other visitors at a time.) But you needn’t be Dr. Freud to diagnose that the narcissism of a new selfie-devoted public has canceled, utterly, the goals of self-obliteration that Ms. Kusama intends her infinite installations to achieve. The self cannot dissolve when the selfie is the goal.”

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Contemporary Art, Sculpture

Ann Hamilton: As After Is Before

T Space, Rhinebeck, New York, July 16 to October 1 2023

I met Ann Hamilton in 1998 when she installed her piece “Myein” at the Venice Biennale (I was working to install the Philip Johnson exhibition at the Ca’ Zenobio). Was delighted to see her again here at her work exhibited at Steven Holl’s T Space room.

This piece is an installation of wool coats and sheep fleece, as aromatic as it was beautiful

Inscribed on a stone near the coats are her words:

as outside is to inside
as animal is to human
as stone is to words
as sound is to song
as image is to object
as made is to grown

-Hamilton
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