yayoi kusama brings colorful dot-covered obliteration room to new york art Yayoi Kusama: From Obliteration to Regeneration. Stepping into the infinity mirrored rooms of Yayoi Kusama is nothing short of a transcendental experience—which is exactly what the Japanese artist intended. Posted Jan 10, 2012 SHARE. 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). In 1939, at the age of 10, she created the drawing Untitled. By Sotheby's | Jul 8, 2020 "I want to obliterate and efface the gloom of the end of the century and open a shining door to the 21st Century with my own hand, hoping for the hymn of ever-shining life to continue beyond the quietude of death." – Yayoi Kusama. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Email. The obliteration room revisits the popular interactive children's project developed by Yayoi Kusama for the Queensland Art Gallery's fourth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in 2002. A particular piece was “The Obliteration Room” (2002 – present) that has more than what its looks convey. As a child, Kusama was physically abused by her mother and around that time, another world started to open up for her, a world of visions and hallucinations. The obliteration room 2011 revisits the popular interactive children’s project developed by Yayoi Kusama for the Queensland Art Gallery's ‘APT 2002: Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’. Visitors make their mark on Yayoi Kusama's 'The obliteration room' at Auckland Art Gallery on December 9, 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand. At 82, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama shows no signs of slowing down.

For Kusama, obliteration is a reflection on the experience of death and the potential of the afterlife. Born in Japan in 1929, she’s often referred to as the “princess of polka dots.” Those dots have been an integral part of many amazing Yayoi art experiences.
Obliteration Room by Yayoi Kusama, Image by Pablo García de los Salmones (CC BY-SA 2.0) A triumph in Kusama’s program to democratise the experience of art, came when she created the Obliteration Room.

Cette vidéo sera récompensée de divers prix. Welcome to the world of the Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama.

A 86 ans, Yayoi Kusama, l’artiste vivante la plus vendue au monde, expose son oeuvre “Dots Obsession (Infinited Mirrored Room)” au centre d’art "le Lait" à Albi. The Obliteration Room.