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Obliteration room4/8/2023 ![]() ![]() 1929, mixed media installation, Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore Victoria Miro, London David Zwirner, New York, © YAYOI KUSAMA, Photo: Cathy Carver. Installation view of Infinity Mirror Room-Phalli’s Field, 1965, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Yayoi Kusama, Japanese, b. Dots Obsession-Love Transformed into Dots, 2007, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Yayoi Kusama, Japanese, b. 1929, wood, mirror, plastic, acrylic, LED, black glass, and aluminum, Collection of the artist, Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore Victoria Miro, London David Zwirner, New York, © YAYOI KUSAMA. Infinity Mirrored Room-Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity, 2009, Yayoi Kusama, Japanese, 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, Collection: Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, © YAYOI KUSAMA, Photo: QAGOMA Photography. The Obliteration Room, 2002 to present, Yayoi Kusama, Japanese, b. 1929, wood, mirrors, metal, and lightbulbs, 82 ¾ x 94 ½ x 80 ¾ in., Collection of Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore. Infinity Mirrored Room-Love Forever, 1966/1994, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Yayoi Kusama, Japanese, b. 1929, wood, mirror, plastic, black glass, LED, Collection of the artist, Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore and Victoria Miro, London, © YAYOI KUSAMA. Infinity Mirrored Room-All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, 2016, Yayoi Kusama, Japanese, b. Images: Yayoi Kusama with recent works in Tokyo, 2016, Courtesy of the artist, © YAYOI KUSAMA, Photo: Tomoaki Makino. Washington DC, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Delmonico Books Mika Yoshitake, “Infinity Mirrors: Doors or Perception,” in Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirrors, ed. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2011. ![]() Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama. UN/OLO Tate Play: The obliteration room will be at Tate Modern from 23 July until 29 August 2022 more info here.Sources: Kusama, Yayoi. This coming half term, free drop-in workshops will run from 28 May until 5 June inviting families to create surrealist collages inspired by the current exhibition Surrealism Beyond Borders. Always taking inspiration from the artists and artworks on display at Tate Modern, UNIOLO Tate Play offers families new ways to play together and get creative, with over 147,000 people having taken part so far. New projects are staged each school holiday, alongside free activities and creative materials during term time. UNIOLO Tate Play was first launched in 202 l with the hugely popular installation: Ei Arakawa’s Mega Please Draw Freely, in which families could draw all over the floor of the Turbine Hall. Since the 1970s Kusama has lived in Tokyo, where she continues to work prolifically and to international acclaim. The artist has been the subject of exhibitions around the world, including a major travelling retrospective initiated by Tate Modern in 2012 and the recently extended exhibition of Infinity Mirror Rooms, now open until l l June 2023. The work reflects Kusama’s enduring obsessions with accumulation, obliteration, and becoming one with the artwork.īorn in 1929 in Matsumoto, Japan, Yayoi Kusama came to international attention in l 960s New York for a wide-ranging creative practice that has encompassed installation, painting, sculpture, fashion design and writing. Visitors are handed a sticker sheet of colourful dots with which to leave their mark on this stark interior, which slowly becomes transformed into a riot of colour. Originally commissioned by the Queensland Art Gallery in Australia, the installation consists of a completely white space fully furnished with entirely white furniture. The obliteration room is one of Kusama’s most ambitious interactive works. As well as having a chance to cover every available surface of the installation with bright circular stickers, families will also be able to create their own work of art to add to an ever-growing garden in the Turbine Hall. Yayoi Kusama’s The obliteration room opens on 23 July as part of UNIOLO Tate Play, Tate Modem’s free programme of playful art-inspired activities for families. Visitors of all ages will help transform a blank white apartment into a sea of colourful dots this summer 2022. Kusama is bringing a dotty playground for kids to decorate during the school summer holidays. ![]()
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