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.

Yayoi kusama s interactive obliteration room begins as a white space which visitors are invited to cover with stickers. Narcissus garden an installation of hundreds of mirrored balls earned kusama notoriety at the 1966 venice. The obliteration room 2011 revisits the popular interactive children s project developed by yayoi kusama for the queensland art gallery s apt 2002. Looking like a typical american house in the exterior with generic furniture and fittings in the interior it captures the visitor with a.

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. 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. 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. 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.

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.