The Obliteration Room Dimana

Perhaps you ve always dreamed of visiting a yayoi kusama exhibit.

The obliteration room dimana.

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. The globe i donated to the obliteration room was well used before it arrived in our house. 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. Rabbit town s patrico sticker room.

The white room works as a canvas for visitors its furniture and details blend in together as colorful dots take over. When the obliteration room was created by yayoi kusama for the queensland art gallery it was for the purposes of engagement with children. Asia pacific triennial of contemporary art. An all white room complete with furniture where guests can obliterate the space with colorful circular stickers.

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. Although the target audience is children the work has the ability to relate to teenagers and adults alike and i think that says something about the nature of engagement and how museums can use this to its advantage. The obliteration room was fist displayed at the queensland art gallery in 2002 as an art project for children and in 2012 it was presented at tate modern. Look now see forever exhibition at goma the work became a social media phenomenon when images of the progressive.

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. 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. Well rabbit town has the patrico sticker room their own version of the obliteration room. Collaboration between yayoi kusama and queensland art gallery commissioned queensland art gallery australia gift of the artist through.

It was made sometime in the late 1940s or 50s and included a lot of out of date political boundaries. Obliteration room is the first interactive project by the artist that includes visitor participation as part of its realization.