Narcissus Garden (2009), Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil. In 2017, She held a large retrospective exhibition “My Eternal Soul” (The National Art Center, Tokyo) and in the same year, the Yayoi Kusama Museum opened in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The result is an endless infinite space where the self and everything in the room is obliterated. She is one of the most important Japanese artists, continuing to work energetically in and outside Japan today. Her representative works include Infinity Net, Dots Obsession, Pumpkin, and My Eternal Soul. In addition to her artistic activities, she has also published a number of novels and poems. In 1957, she moved to United States by herself and discovered an artistic philosophy of self-obliteration through obsessive repetition and multiplication of a single motif, and established herself as an avantgarde artist by developing a diverse range of works including net paintings, soft sculptures, environmental sculptures using mirrors and electric lights, and happenings. She has experienced visions and auditory hallucinations from an early age, and began to draw polka dots and net patterns as motifs. Kusama was recently named the world’s most popular artist, based on figures for global museum attendance and, in 2016, was selected as one of TIME Magazine’s World’s 100 Most Influential People.Born in 1929. By the mid-1960s Kusama had become well known in the art world for her provocative happenings and exhibitions.įor almost 70 years Kusama has been engaged in a practice encompassing painting, collage, sculpture, performance, film, installation and environmental art, as well as literature, product design and fashion, including a collaboration with Louis Vuitton in 2012. The obliteration room, originally developed by Yayoi Kusama for the Queensland Art Gallery’s APT 2002: Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, has toured to London, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janiero, Brasilia, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Shanghai, South Korea, Switzerland and France, as well as the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in New Zealand.īorn 1929, Kusama studied painting in Kyoto before moving to New York in the late 1950s. The domestic environment with local characteristics creates an air of familiarity that makes participants, especially children, comfortable enough to engage with the work with little or no prompting. The obliteration room is a reflection of this hallucinogenic vision, as well as a way of embracing the whole world in a kind of overall pattern. The work relates to hallucinations Kusama began to experience in childhood, where her vision was clouded by spots. Her mesmerising paintings, sculptures and installations have entranced people across the globe and it is our pleasure to deliver and share this playful, engaging and creative experience with Aucklanders and visitors to the city alike.’ ‘Kusama was recently named the world’s most popular artist. Yayoi Kusama’s The Obliteration Room opens on 23 July as part of UNIQLO Tate Play, Tate Modern’s free program of playful art-inspired activities for families. Moving away from the traditional restrictions of a Gallery space, it encourages everyone to touch, engage and create in an entirely self-directed way,’ she says.ĭevenport says it is an honour to have such an internationally well-loved and revered artist as Kusama exhibit at Auckland Art Gallery. A rainbow of brightly coloured dots will obliterate a pure white room when avant-garde Japanese artist Yayoi Kusamas The obliteration room opens on Saturday 9. ‘The obliteration room makes artists of us all. The white walls, ceiling, furniture and objects in the space will be obliterated over time by the mass build-up of dots into a dizzying blur of colour as visitors apply brightly coloured stickers in various sizes to every surface.Īuckland Art Gallery Director Rhana Devenport says Kusama’s work welcomes people into a space to become collaborators on a celebrated artwork that has travelled the world. Kusama’s family-friendly participatory installation in the Gallery’s Creative Learning Centre begins as a New Zealand living room drained of colour which will function as a blank canvas ready to be invigorated. The Creative Thinking Project and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki join forces to present the work of Yayoi Kusama - Obliteration Room.Ī rainbow of brightly coloured dots will obliterate a pure white room when avant-garde Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s The obliteration room opens on Saturday 9 December 2017 at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
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