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In their exhibition at Neues Museum Nürnberg, Pipilotti Rist and Yayoi Kusama create a sensual, colourful world with their works. They break taboos and open up new ways of perceiving and exploring the human body.
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Pipilotti Rist (born 1962 in Grabs, Switzerland) is one of the pioneers of media art. Since the 1990s, her videos and installations have developed a new visual idiom, creating immersive spaces for visitors to plunge into. With extreme close-ups of body parts, unusual perspectives and digital postprocessing, she renders familiar subject matter strange, altering the way we see the world.
Yayoi Kusama (born 1929 in Matsumoto, Japan) had to struggle hard to gain such aesthetic freedoms. In the 1960s, her naked happenings, in which she painted people, animals and their surroundings with spots, caused a scandal. Over time, she developed a broad oeuvre including painting, collage, sculpture and installations. The polka dots that have become her trademark are a metaphor for a breaking down of personal borders and the idea of becoming one with the universe.
In the exhibition, these two artistic worlds meet, opening up new ways of looking at two artists from different generations and backgrounds.
Curated by Cornelia Gockel
A cooperation of Neues Museum and Sammlung Goetz
