This is the stage just before the performance of Ryoji Ikeda’s “100 Cymbals”. He is a Japanese electronic sound composer and visual artist based in Paris. He is also showing now at the Blum & Poe Gallery in Los Angeles with video art of sensory overload. Both shows have dizzying effects ranging from minimalism to obsession carried to an extreme.

Check out the Blum & Poe Gallery in Los Angeles for a museum quality show of works curated by Mika Yoshitake called “Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s”. This is Part 1 of 2 and it runs through March 23, 2019. The show successfully brings to light a period of art works that is not really known to the West and I include myself. I’m just glad it’s being done. It’s like a survey of numerous artists spanning sculpture, painting, photography and video. I’m looking forward to the next part! The gallery is partnered with the Nonaka-Hill gallery also in Los Angeles featuring more contemporary art from Japan.