The Obliteration Room De Yayoi Kusama 2011

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 de yayoi kusama 2011.

Students from smithsonian early enrichment center visited the yayoi kusama. Lastly the exhibition will conclude documentarily with the projection of some of her most polemic performances such as walking piece or kusama s self obliteration and a room. The obliteration room featured in kusama s major retrospective at tate modern in london and the work has since toured to buenos aires rio de janiero brasilia sao paulo mexico city shanghai and venues in south korea switzerland and france with many future locales to come. The extraordinary capacity of kusama s work which adapts to.

Yayoi kusama 草間 彌生 kusama yayoi born 22 march 1929 is a japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation but is also active in painting performance film fashion poetry fiction and other arts her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism minimalism surrealism art brut pop art and abstract expressionism and is. 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. 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. 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.

Yayoi kusama s interactive obliteration room begins as a white space which visitors are invited to cover with stickers. Asia pacific triennial of contemporary art. Looking like a typical american house in the exterior with generic furniture and fittings in the interior it captures the visitor with a. Watch the progression of yayoi kusama s the obliteration room from a blank white canvas to a polka dot covered colour explosion over the course of one month.

Room filled with the brilliance of life 2011 a montage specifically designed for the occasion.