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Yayoi Kusama "Infinity Mirrors" exhibit, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Yayoi Kusama
Infinity Mirrored Room—All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins
2016
Wood, mirrors, plastic, acrylic, and LEDs
Collection of the artist
"Coming from a family that cultivated and sold plant seeds for a living, Kusama saw a pumpkin for the first time during a childhood visit to a seed-harvesting farm with her grandfather. Nestled into the landscape between fields of zinnia, periwinkle, and nasturtium flowers, she spotted an unusually shaped gourd the size of a man’s head. The artist was attracted to the pumpkin for its “charming and winsome form,” celebrating its lumpy, unpretentious, organic shape. The pumpkin motif first appeared in some of Kusama’s drawings from the late 1940s and has repeatedly shown up in her paintings, sculptures, drawings, and installations. Her initial pumpkin mirrored room was staged in 1991 and was later displayed at the 1993 Venice Biennale. Stepping into Infinity Mirrored Room—All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, one is transported to a space that recalls fairytales and fantasy. The glowing pumpkins, modeled after the Japanese kabocha squash, are married with Kusama’s signature polka dot pattern within an infinitely repeating space."
We are absolute suckers for infinity mirrors! Facing mirrors are almost as cool. Turns out this Canon SD400 camera isn't quite as good as I'd thought -- in low light and with a low battery it reminds me more of my shitty GE camera than my old Canon S330 pictures.
taking picture.
camera, facing mirrors, hallway, light.
Christian's house, Silver Spring, Maryland.
May 22, 2010.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
BACKSTORY: Remembrance party held in honor of Dirk Smiler (R.I.P.), who was shot by his girlfriend Cara Cottle in February.
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors / Hirshhorn Museum
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.” ―Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Yayoi Kusama "Infinity Mirrors" exhibit, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Yayoi Kusama
Infinity Mirrored Room—Love Forever
1966/1994
Wood, mirrors, metal, and lightbulbs
Collection of Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore
Infinity Mirrored Room—Love Forever is an iteration of the second mirrored environment Kusama created. Sculptural, architectural, and performative, the installation blurs the lines between artistic disciplines and is activated by audience participation. Hexagonal in shape and mirrored on all sides, Love Forever features two peepholes that invite visitors to peer in and see both themselves and another participant repeated into infinity. At the time Kusama created this Infinity Mirror Room, she was experimenting with new technology and viewed the work as a “machine for animation.” During the 1966 exhibition opening of Kusama’s Peep Show, which featured this work, Kusama distributed buttons with the message “Love Forever” printed on them. For the artist, the concept of “Love Forever” stood for civil rights, sexual liberation, the antiwar movement, and the activist groups of the 1960s."
TTC 4409, a 2015 Bombardier Flexity Outlook streetcar, is seen waiting for passengers on route 514 Cherry at the intersection of King St. E. and Jarvis St. in downtown Toronto.
This streetcar features a full wrap for Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrors exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
We are absolute suckers for infinity mirrors! Facing mirrors are almost as cool. Turns out this Canon SD400 camera isn't quite as good as I'd thought -- in low light and with a low battery it reminds me more of my shitty GE camera than my old Canon S330 pictures.
facing mirrors, hallway.
Christian's house, Silver Spring, Maryland.
May 22, 2010.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
BACKSTORY: Remembrance party held in honor of Dirk Smiler (R.I.P.), who was shot by his girlfriend Cara Cottle in February.
Paintings in the Infinity Mirrors exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario, a retrospective of Yayoi Kusama's art career.
(interior) Infinity Mirrored Room—Love Forever, 1966/1994. Wood, mirrors, metal, light bulbs. The Broad
Yayoi Kusama "Infinity Mirrors" exhibit, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Yayoi Kusama
Dots Obsession—Love Transformed into Dots
2007, installed 2017
Vinyl balloons, balloon dome with mirror room, peep-in mirror dome, and video projection
Courtesy Victoria Miro, London
"In 1996, Kusama began creating a series of installations incorporating polka-dotted balloons. Hanging from the ceiling and occupying the floor, these inflatable objects disrupt the viewer’s path. Visitors can enter a mirrored room inside one of the balloons or peer inside another. The work engages visitors on contrasting scales: the tiny micro-space seen through a peephole and the macro life-sized space that envelops the viewer within the installation. A video monitor hanging from the ceiling of the gallery features Kusama singing one of her poems."
Yayoi Kusama "Infinity Mirrors" exhibit, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Yayoi Kusama
The Obliteration Room
2002–present, installed 2017
Furniture, white paint, and dot stickers
"In Yayoi Kusama’s The Obliteration Room, visitors add colorful dot stickers to eliminate the traces of the original white room through the act of communal 'obliteration.' Recalling Kusama’s earlier polka-dotted environments and her performances that activated bodies through participation, this installation demonstrates her utopian desire for radical connectivity. The polka dot acts as a universal equalizer, a connector between all of us as we collectively participate in obliterating the environment by placing dots in the installation." (source)
Yayoi Kusama "Infinity Mirrors" exhibit, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Yayoi Kusama
Infinity Nets Yellow
1960
Oil paint on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
"Infinity Nets Yellow is one of the most significant surviving works from Kusama's early years in New York and was formerly in the collection of American artist Frank Stella. Viewed at close range, its kinetic surface seems to engulf one's field of vision. Creating such expansive areas of pattern required tremendous physical labor and focus from the artist, but she was determined to incite experiences of immersion and boundlessness, an interest that would later be manifested in the Infinity Mirror Rooms."
Infinity Mirrored Room-Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity, 2009. Wood, mirror, plastic, acrylic, LEDs and aluminum. The Broad