Tatsuo Miyajima – Connect with Everything

By Ben Stephens

When a visiting artist to the Museum of Contemporary Art is named, you just know that you’ll see it in a news feed near you soon. This is due mainly to the curator team at the MCA knowing what’s good in the contemporary art scene and being able to lock down some huge names. Remember the Chuck Close exhibit, then the year after it was Grayson Perry with those 8-meter-long tapestries on how we live our material lives? Well this season, as a part of the Sydney International Art Series, the MCA are pleased to welcome Tatsuo Miyajima to present a Sydney exclusive, a southern hemisphere first exhibition of his entire body of work, Connect with everything.

Miyajima, a Japanese national hailing from Tokyo, originally studied oil painting and fine arts in the mid 1980’s. He then turned his hand to sculptures and installations and in particular the use of numbers from 1 – 9, toying with the idea of life and death. These numbers are used throughout Miyajima’s pieces, from projections on buildings to a room full of light-emitting diodes counting down the numbers. The number 0 isn’t represented, highlighting the Buddhist belief of human life cycles are never ending and prompting that the idea of 0 is a western ideology.

With Tatsuo Miyajima taking over level three of the Museum of Contemporary Art for the summer, with pieces of work that will no doubt move your minds idea of the human life cycle alongside works that will just straight out make you brain bend, we are in for another awesome season of art. Tickets for the exhibition have already gone on sale and can be snapped up HERE. As QT Sydney are great mates with the MCA team, we have created a sweet little package including accommodation, breakfast and tickets to the exhibition, check that one out before it sells out.

Tatsuo Miyajima – Connect with everything is at the MCA from November 3 to March 5.