It explores the representation of self and features video works, digital picture making, portrait drawing, magnetic dress-up dolls and expressions through music. The Children's Art Centre is also hosting Me, Myselfie and I until Sunday 22 April. We have now been to three \ and the collaboration has been experienced by more than five million people worldwide. The exhibition explores her key motifs (dots dots dots), her engagement with the body, and her conception of space such as in the infinity rooms.Īs well as the main exhibition the Children's Art Centre at GOMA is hosting the immersive interactive The obliteration room (2002 – ongoing). Until Sunday 11 February Life is the Heart of the Rainbow is surveying Kusama's vast body of work since the 1950s. No matter what has happened in her past, no matter how far around the world she travels, Yayoi Kusama will eventually return to the same place, the original place inside of her.Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama is having a ‘moment' in Australia, with an installation at the NGV ‘ Flower Obsession‘ and a major exhibition Life is the Heart of the Rainbow at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane.We are regular visitors to Brisbane and we always make a point of visiting the excellent exhibitions at GOMA. While at times Kusama’s artworks are seemingly chaotic and confused, they display her imagination and thoughts on the concepts of love, infinity and eternity with the bold use of bright colours and patterns, giving her audience a cheerful and engaging experience. In a recent New York Times piece on the Infinity Mirrored Room, William Grimes described it as “Cosmic and intimate at the same time, it merges inner and outer space, science and mysticism, the personal and the impersonal”. Aside from a little standing stage, the wall, ceiling and floor surfaces are all covered with a reflective mirrored surface, with hundreds of glimmering multi-colored LED lights hanging from the ceiling at different heights, interacting with the reflective surfaces to create an enchanting space and giving it the illusion of infinity. Her artwork Infinity Mirrored Room-The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away,displayed at the David Zwirner Gallery in 2013, is a good example that elevates and alerts the senses. Kusama’s installations contain certain elements that allow for them to become sensory and immersive for the audience. Kusama’s crazy yet beautiful artworks are not only her personal way of communicating with the world, but also an ongoing process of self-healing of the wounds of her past, and medical condition. Through this installation, both the room and the audience were gradually self-obliterated. By the end of the exhibition, the white room was completely covered by the colourful dots, leaving no trace of the original plain room-just a colourful speckled interior. Kusama views the dot as the origin of everything, and works this into the artwork with the help of audience activity.The artwork consisted of an all-white room with white furniture, and visitors were encouraged to decorate the room with a range of colourful dot-shaped stickers. Kusama’s 2011 work the Obliteration Room at GOMA is a perfect example that expresses her idea of self-obliteration-one of her most important recurring themes-through the repetition of polka dots. Moreover, her iconic style of working with dots and patterns allows her to convey and objectify her dream world in reality. Kusama’s condition, which includes hallucinations, began during her childhood when her entire surrounding space was covered with repetitive patterns and bold colours, which then became a part of her artistic style. Her artworks are a result of her obsessional neurosis, from where, she says, her ideas for artistic creation “arise from a deep, driving compulsion to realise in visible form the repetitive image inside of ”. Kusama has explored and developed the themes of self-obliteration, infinity and repetition throughout her artistic career, using her signature motifs of polka dots, mirrors and various linear patterns. Red wig, polka dots, Obliteration Room, Infinity Nets … These words immediately remind us of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, now in her eighties, who is regarded as one of the most important and influential artists in the contemporary art scene.
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