Kusama Obliteration Room

New york s david zwirner art gallery was recently host to the give me love installation a collection by japanese artist yayoi kusama a particular piece was the obliteration room 2002 present that has more than what its looks convey.

Kusama obliteration room.

In this reworked and enlarged installation an australian domestic environment is recreated in the gallery space complete with locally sourced furniture and ornamentation all of which has been. Artist yayoi kusama s interactive obliteration room begins as an entirely white space furnished as a monochrome living room which people are then invited t. Looking like a typical american house in the exterior with generic furniture and fittings in the interior it captures the visitor with a. Asia pacific triennial of contemporary art.

Avant garde japanese artist yayoi kusama was an influential figure in the postwar new york art scene staging provocative happenings and exhibiting works such as her infinity nets hallucinatory paintings of loops and dots and physical representations of the idea of infinity. Over the course of a few weeks the room is transformed from a blank canvas into an explosion of colour with thousands of spots stuck over every available surface. Yayoi kusama s interactive obliteration room begins as a white space which visitors are invited to cover with stickers. Step inside the dotty world of the obliteration room by yayoi kusama at the gallery of modern art brisbane.

Narcissus garden an installation of hundreds of mirrored balls earned kusama notoriety at the 1966 venice.