{"id":4601,"date":"2009-03-08T02:53:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T02:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=4601"},"modified":"2011-09-08T02:33:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T01:33:37","slug":"infinite-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/03\/08\/infinite-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Infinite reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fireflies on the Water by Yayoi Kusama (2002).<\/em><\/p>\n

One of my favourite contemporary artworks, Fireflies on the Water<\/em> by Yayoi Kusama<\/a>, receives a new showing at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art<\/a>. Her mirrored room features 150 lights and a pool of water and while most photos show an impressive work, none of them can match this fantastic 360\u00ba panorama<\/a> by Australian photographer Peter Murphy. Kusama isn’t the only artist to use mirrors this way but mirror rooms and reflective surfaces have become as much a recurrent feature of her work as her trademark spots.<\/p>\n

Fireflies on the Water<\/em> is being shown as part of the Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years<\/em> exhibition and can be seen until June 8th, 2009. (Via Nevertheless<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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Mirrored Room by Lucas Samaras (1966).<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve often wondered how far back the invention of the fully-mirrored room can be traced. Halls of mirrors are historically common but the mirrors tend to be on the walls only. American artist Lucas Samaras produced his Mirrored Room<\/em><\/a> (with mirrored chair and table) in 1966, something which fascinated me when I first encountered it in art books.<\/p>\n

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It evidently fascinated ex-art student Brian Eno who I’m sure must have borrowed the idea for the cover of his collaboration with Robert Fripp, (No Pussyfooting)<\/em><\/a>, in 1973. I’ve always assumed this was a room in Eno’s home at the time but never seen that confirmed. Anyone know whether this is the case?<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The panoramas archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The art of Josiah McElheny<\/a>
\n\u2022 Yayoi Kusama<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Yayoi Kusama<\/a>
\n\u2022 Exposure by Robert Fripp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fireflies on the Water by Yayoi Kusama (2002). One of my favourite contemporary artworks, Fireflies on the Water by Yayoi Kusama, receives a new showing at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Her mirrored room features 150 lights and a pool of water and while most photos show an impressive work, none of them can match … Continue reading “Infinite reflections”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3,41],"tags":[145,687,269,531,270,271],"class_list":["post-4601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-music","category-sculpture","tag-brian-eno","tag-josiah-mcelheny","tag-panoramas","tag-peter-murphy","tag-robert-fripp","tag-yayoi-kusama"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1cd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}