Yayoi Kusama Museum in Jakarta
Hi guys! Have you heard about Museum Macan (Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara) before the art exhibition of Yayoi Kusama? If you have not, well, don't worry you are not alone! I was fortunate enough to visit the Jakarta, Indonesia while the Yayoi Kasuma - Life is the Heart of the Rainbow was in the exhibition. I decided to visit the museum without giving much thought to what I would actually see.
The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara or Museum MACAN is an art museum at Kebon Jeruk in Jakarta, Indonesia. The museum is the first in Indonesia to have a collection of modern and contemporary Indonesian and international art. It has a display area of about 4,000 square meters. The museum is included in a list of the World’s 100 Greatest Places 2018 released by Time magazine.
Yayoi Kusama is labeled as The Queen of Polka Dot since most of her artworks dominate the pattern. Born in 1929 in Matsumoto, Japan, Kusama began painting as a small child and, against her parent's wishes. She was born to a well-established conservative family that owned a seed nursery business and she spent her childhood surrounded by her family’s seed harvesting grounds. Frustrated with the oppression she felt from conservative Japanese society, she moved to New York to continue pursuing art and eventually became a key fixture in the Pop Art movement with her provocative exhibitions and demonstrations.
Below are some amazing artworks you’ll see at the exhibition! The exterior of the building is a sight to behold! The first things that I saw were big yellow balloons with black dots.
Leftover snow in the dream. When Yayoi Kusama was young, she was made by her mother to spy on her father who was at that time having extra-marital affairs. This trauma was what caused the artist to develop a phobia towards man and sex. Ironically, when Yayoi Kusama started making soft sculpture, they often took the form of phallic shapes, such as this leftover snow in the dream – stuffed cushion, sewn and painted in white, taking the form of phallic.
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