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‘Quiet, contemplative and captivating’

by Georgia Haagsma
Mariko Mori at Royal Academy of Arts - Burlington Gardens December 13th, 2012 - February 17th
Posted 1/13/13

In 1995, Japanese artist Mariko Mori, who had recently completed her degree at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, created a self-portrait. In it she appears with spiky purple hair wearing oversized headphones, white boots, pink tights, a latex kilt, a black top with blue sleeves and futuristic plastic bracelets. She's surrounded by brightly coloured bouncy balls, and is smiling. The work is called Birth of a Star. By portraying herself as a 90s pop queen, Mori commented on an image-driven c... [more]

Super Spacey

by Natalie Hegert
Mariko Mori at Galerie Perrotin - Saint Claude May 23rd, 2009 - July 23rd, 2009
Posted 5/30/09

What can I say but every time I've walked into Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin on impasse St Claude I enter a state of ecstatic reverie and I can't help but smile as I take in the works. Following the absolute tour de force that was the Lionel Estève exhibit is an equally rapturous installation by the mistress of the universe, that extraterrestrial artist known as Mariko Mori. Seven new works are on display in the front gallery, a series of White Holes, or amorphously egg-like white alumin... [more]

All of This is Melting Away

by Jenia Gorton
Chiho Aoshima, Olaf Breuning, Beth Campbel, Roberto Cuoghi, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Wynne Greenwood, Kirsten Hassenfeld, Jim Hodges, Hideaki Kawashima, Makiko Kudo, Melora Kuhn, Mahomi Kunikata, Yayoi Kusama, Tony Matelli, Adam McEwen, Bjarne Melgaard, Mariko Mori, Dave Muller, Ivan Navarro, Mitsuhiro Okamoto, Nick Rodrigues, Rei Sato, Jennifer Steinkamp, Aya Takano, Yuken Teruya, Gary Webb, Fischli & Weiss, Fred Wilson at Royal T August 14th, 2008 - February 20th, 2009
Posted 8/31/08

The group show, “All of This is Melting Away,” at Royal-T art space presents the work of 33 diverse artists in an imaginative, enlivening, and vibrant array of painting, mixed media, sculpture, pottery, and light and sound installation. Each of the 43 works somehow indicate a quality of fluctuation and variability, as implied by the show’s title, and suggest the motif of melting by combining mediums, blurring subjects, and experimenting with space. The show as a whole destabilizes... [more]