"hang on a minute lads, I've got a great idea" Michael Caine in The Italian Job.
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Richard Wilson's Site specific sculpture of a bus hanging off a building in Bexhill is an art piece that looks again at the world we take for granted. He takes objects from the real world that have a reference point, and that already have a relationship with the public. The bus from the film "The Italian Job" is a piece that people identify with, and is an iconic image. Architecture if true doesn't move, but this sculpture teeters off the edge of a building and appears as if it will fall off. The artist states that this is a snap shot view of things. There is an element of humour, and also it is a magical moment. People are siezed by the moment, they stop and look because this is something that is unsettling and unusual.
YAYOI KUSAMA
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/yayoi-kusama
Yayoi Kusama lives voluntarily in psychiatric institution. At 83 years old her art challenges, dazzles or stuns. Exhibited at the Tate in June 2012 Yayoi Kusama is known as the Princess of Polka dot. Her work has consisted of abstract paintings, collages, films, fashion and poetry. They are joyful works deceptively rooted in dark life experiences. Patterns are endlessly repeated, obsessional in their creation. The artist suffered childhood trauma and has said that "if it were not for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago"
Her art are acts of recreating hallucinations as a way of dealing with her past, and her obsessive behaviour. Kasuma's work is all enveloping to the viewer; she confronts her innermost fears. They are immersive environments of repetition. Andy Warhol, three years after seeing Kusama's art, created a wall paper that can be seen as inspired and influenced by her. Her work can be said to remind us of Jackson Pollack's own art, but his work is an assault on the senses, whereas Kusama's work is more enveloping.
The piece that Kusama created for The Tate, mirrored walls reflecting bulbs in different colours, are of an infinity and perhaps a place beyond infinity. It is an exquisite piece that surrounds us with calm. Maybe, at the age of 83, Yayoi Kusama has now resolved her fears and is embracing life and that life beyond infinity.
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