Yayoi Kusama Obliteration Room 2011

Yayoi kusama obliteration room 2011 12 obliteration room might arouse the ire of jerry saltz and other critics weary of relational aesthetics.

Yayoi kusama obliteration room 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 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. Looking like a typical american house in the exterior with generic furniture and fittings in the interior it captures the visitor with a. Despite countless curatorial essays complicating its definition relational aesthetics is just a term applied to artwork that incorporates viewer interaction.

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. The 2017 installation coincides with the yayoi kusama. The white room is gradually obliterated over the course of the exhibition the space changing measurably with the passage of time as the dots accumulate as a result of thousands and thousands of.

Asia pacific triennial of contemporary art. Of interest this work will be on display in the childrens s art centre at goma from 6 december 2014. In this reworked and enlarged installation a domestic environment will be recreated in the gallery space. Yayoi kusama s the obliteration room 2002 present can take many forms with various items of furniture therefore the dimensions for her work are variable.

Life is the heart of a rainbow exhibition opening on 04 november 2017. Yayoi kusama with infinity mirrored room. 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. Yayoi kusama s interactive obliteration room begins as a white space which visitors are invited to cover with stickers.

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. 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. Asia pacific triennial of contemporary art. That makes a work like the obliteration room 2011 all the more difficult to make sense of.