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Old 09-18-2012, 09:47 AM   #19 (permalink)
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I don't know much of her work, but I saw this amazing piece of Yayoi Kusama's at the Phoenix Art Museum. It's called "You Who Are Being Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Dragonflies" and it's a dark room with hanging LED lights and mirrors for floors, walls and ceilings. When you walk into the room, it's like stepping off of the Earth and into a particularly vivid area of infinity. It was nothing short of amazing.



EDIT: As you can tell, a jpg doesn't do it much justice.
That's awesome! Along that same line is an awesome piece by Olafur Eliasson called The Weather Project.



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Eliasson used humidifiers to create a fine mist in the air via a mixture of sugar and water, as well as a semi-circular disc made up of hundreds of monochromatic lamps which radiated yellow light. The ceiling of the hall was covered with a huge mirror, in which visitors could see themselves as tiny black shadows against a mass of orange light. Many visitors responded to this exhibition by lying on their backs and waving their hands and legs. Open for six months, the work reportedly attracted two million visitors, many of whom were repeat visitors.
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