An encounter with delirium and the limits of reason at the Met

FROM September 13 to January 14, 2018, the Metropolitan Museum of New York will host the wildly titled exhibition, "Delirious: Art at the Limits of reason, 1950-1980."
The venerable New York museum will turn a spotlight on artistic production from 1950 to 1980 inspired by military conflict, and social and political upheavals in Europe, South America and the United States. This atmosphere of unrest provided the inspiration for works of art that were disenchanted, fantastic and permeated with unreason. A hundred of these delirious works will be on show from September 13, 2017 to January 14, 2018.
More than a state of confusion, the Met has adopted the term "delirious" for a range of similar artistic experiments that flirt with irrationality and derange logical structures. The show "Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980" will be divided into four sections — Vertigo, Excess, Nonsense and Twisted — that will showcase approximately 100 works, of which a third will be sourced from the Met's own collection. It will include pieces by 62 artists, notably Yayoi Kusama, Nancy Grossman, Antonio Berni, Dara Birnbaum and Tony Conrad.
Of particular interest is a series of 13 photographs by Ana Mendieta in which the Cuban-American artist flattens her face against a pane of glass. So too is a ladder decorated with high-heeled shoes by Yayoi Kusama.
"Delirious: Art at the Limits of reason, 1950-1980" from September 13, 2017 to January 14, 2018, at the Metropolitan Museum of New York. — AFP Relaxnews