Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi turns civic monuments into weird interior features of temporary “rooms”. In Sydney currently he has created rooms over two large equestrian statues that stand outside the state Art Gallery — you can go up ramps to view the rooms. Here is one of the rooms — panorama, and here is the other — panorama. Here is what this latter statue looks like normally.
I was in Melbourne last weekend and went up to the 86th floor of the new Eureka Tower on the South Bank, where there is an observation deck … panorama. In the opening view of the panorama you can see the Yarra River winding its way west - then south, to Port Phillip Bay. The most impressive part of the Eureka Tower “experience” I thought was the sci-fi speed and smoothness of the lifts. Sydney’s Centrepoint Tower lifts are placid in comparison.
“Mirrored Years” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, at Circular Quay, on at the moment, is a large scale retrospective of the work of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama — and includes a couple of her amazing mirrored “Infinity Rooms”. viz. “Phalli’s Field” : Quicktime panorama. And “Fireflies on the Water” : Quicktime panorama.
I went to the Art Gallery of New South Wales on Friday for the announcements of the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes. My panorama shows Tim Kyle, the winner of the Wynne prize, leaning on his “Seated figure” sculpture.
Visitors to the panoramas of the Chinese performance artists might perhaps also be interested in this panorama I made last year of an installation in Sydney by famous Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. In the 60s in New York she and her teams were famous for performance/action pieces but in more recent times it is her “dots” installations that she is mostly known for.
