Yayoi Kusama - The Obliteration Room

art in the hands of the children...

By parasitesdontlisten, January 09, 2012

Starting this December, the Brisbane Gallery of Modern Art is celebrating the work of 82-year-old Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama with a major exhibition called "Look Now, See Forever" that will run through March 12. For this exhibition Yayoi Kusama, constructed a large domestic environment, painting every wall, chair, table, piano, and household decoration a brilliant white, effectively serving as a giant white canvas. Over the course of two weeks, the museum's smallest visitors were given thousands upon thousands of colored dot stickers and were invited to collaborate in the transformation of the space, turning the house into a vibrantly mottled explosion of color. The effect of this installation, entitled "The Obliteration Room", is to encapsulate our feelings about childhood, as a sterile, boring scene is transformed into an explosion of colour by the collective imaginations of a set of marauding, excitable youngsters.

To  participate too in Kusama's World of Dots game, click here.

To visit the gallery click here.