Yayoi Kusama Museum Infinity Room

Infinity mirrored room filled with the brilliance of life is one of kusama s largest installations to date and was made for her 2012 retrospective at tate modern.

Yayoi kusama museum infinity room.

281 9 367 367 cm. 10 2017 the broad los angeles october. Whitney museum of american art new york. You will need to enter your mobile phone number and first name.

As the multitude of lights reflect they accumulate and expand exponentially. It is shown alongside chandelier of grief a room which creates the illusion of a boundless universe of rotating crystal chandeliers. Japanese artist yayoi kusama is known for her repetitive polka dots and peep show like chamber rooms that create the illusion of infinite space. This sense of infinity has been with kusama from the beginning.

1929 fireflies on the water 2002. The first publication to focus on yayoi kusama s infinity mirror rooms t his richly illustrated volume includes insightful essays by mika yoshitake alexander dumbadze and gloria sutton as well as an interview with the artist by melissa chiu the hirshhorn s director. A room is completely covered with mirrors and dozens of led lights hang from the ceiling. Purchase with funds from the postwar committee and the contemporary painting and sculpture committee and partial gift of betsy wittenborn miller 2003 322.

Infinity mirrors is organized by mika yoshitake curator hirshhorn museum and sculpture garden smithsonian institution washington d c. 1929 wood mirrors metal and lightbulbs 82 x 94 x 80 in collection of ota fine arts tokyo singapore. Six of her i. For the best chance to view this infinity mirrored room.

Yayoi kusama s infinity mirrored rooms. A woman enters the the souls of millions of light years away room during a preview of the yayoi kusama s infinity mirrors exhibit at the hirshhorn museum feb. Infinity mirrored room the souls of millions of light years away 2013 is just such an inhabitable kusama world. The exhibition is traveling to several major museums in the united states and canada including the hirshhorn museum and sculpture garden february 23 may 14 2017 seattle art museum june 30 sept.

21 2017 in washington dc.