Obliteration Room Yayoi Kusama Artworks

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.

Obliteration room yayoi kusama artworks.

Asia pacific triennial of contemporary art. Beginning as a stark white interior it encourages you to transform the space of our creative learning centre by saturating it with a rainbow of brightly coloured dots. Comprising new paintings from the my eternal soul series new polka dotted pumpkin sculptures and the artist s widely celebrated installation the obliteration room yayoi kusama s. The obliteration room 2011 revisits the popular interactive children s project developed by yayoi kusama for the queensland art gallery s apt 2002.

The obliteration room 2002 to present yayoi kusama japanese b. 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. The obliteration room 2002 present is a family friendly and participatory installation by one of the world s most popular well loved artists yayoi kusama b. 1929 furniture white paint and dot stickers dimensions variable collaboration between yayoi kusama and queensland art gallery commissioned queensland art gallery australia gift of the artist through the queensland art gallery foundation 2012.

Yayoi kusama s interactive obliteration room begins as a white space which visitors are invited to cover with stickers. The obliteration room 2002 present sponsored by santos glng and supported by ikea logan is an interactive work initially developed by senior japanese artist yayoi kusama in collaboration with the queensland art gallery as a children s project for apt2002. Looking like a typical american house in the exterior with generic furniture and fittings in the interior it captures the visitor with a. 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.

Yayoi kusama had a breakthrough in 1965 when she produced infinity mirror room phalli s field using mirrors she transformed the intense repetition of her earlier paintings and works on paper into a perceptual experience. You are invited to enter the world of the artist and obliterate an entirely white domestic space by adding colourful dot stickers to the furniture objects and surfaces in this. 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. Asia pacific triennial of contemporary art.