Until the 6th September 2009 at the Hayward Gallery in Southbank in London.
I really enjoyed this exhibition at the Hayward Gallery entitled Walking in My Mind. The Hayward Gallery’s 2009 summer exhibition continues the recent tradition of inviting high profile and up-and-coming artists from around the world to transform the Gallery’s unique outdoor and indoor exhibition spaces. This year, ten artists have been selected to show works that explore how the inner workings of the mind - emotions, thoughts, memories and dreams – can be represented in three-dimensional space, shedding light on their creativity and inviting visitors to explore their own thought processes.
The exhibition features new and existing works by the following artists: Charles Avery (UK), Thomas Hirschhorn (Switzerland), Yayoi Kusama (Japan), Bo Christian Larsson (Sweden), Mark Manders (The Netherlands), Yoshitomo Nara (Japan), Jason Rhoades (USA), Pipilotti Rist (Switzerland), Chiharu Shiota (Japan) and Keith Tyson (UK).
I particularly enjoyed the installations of Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn and Yayoi Kusama (images attached) which I found fascinating. I really felt inside the brain of these artists.
Stephanie Rosenthal, Chief Curator of the Hayward Gallery, said:
‘Many artworks encourage the viewer to see the world through the artist’s eyes. The works in Walking in My Mind do more than this, as they pull the viewer into the unique worlds of ten major international artists who are explicitly preoccupied with their own minds and the creative process. The installations function as metaphors for the creative mind, inviting visitors to walk in and around the artists’ inner worlds translated into physical works of art.’
This is really worth seeing...
To learn more: http://www.haywardgallery.org.uk/
