Second visit to this museum. This time, after the Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore exhibition, we went through the art of Korea, of Japan, of South and Southeast Asia. We saw the Japanese Buddhist temple, sections with statues and masks with horrible faces and a woodcut print by Gauguin. I was particulatly impressed by a work of art called “Translated Vase” by Yeesookyung, a collection of green broken pieces of ceramic reassembled with epoxy and gold in the kintsugi style and without an opening. Amazing. There was an outstanding exhibition called “Deep Waters: Four Artists and the Sea”, only four artworks but one of them was a video by John Akomfrah called “Vertigo Sea”, subtitled “Oblique Tales on the Aquatic Sublime”, created in 2015. It questions the relationship between the sea, as an entity with creatures that humanity is destroying, and as a means that supported slavery. Three screens with different images, very similar to was presented at the Biennale in Venice last year. A huge museum worth another visit one day.
Valentine Weather
Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes,
come on, let us sway together,
under the trees, and to hell with thunder
Edwin Morgan