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| Yayoi Kusama Studio Infinity Mirrored Room Filled with the Brilliance of Life 2011 |
A dizzying effect is created with the aid of the dots on the mirror. This creates a feeling that the dots appear to go on and on into infinity.The walls and ceiling of the room are mirrored, and the floor features a shallow pool of water. Visitors walk through the room on a walkway made of mirrored tiles. Hanging from the ceiling are hundreds of small, round LED lights that flash on and off in different colour configurations. The pinpricks of light in the otherwise darkened room appear to reflect endlessly in the mirrors, giving the viewer the experience of being in an apparently endless space, broken only by points of light in the darkness.
The Infinity Mirror Rooms can be seen as the expression of Kusama’s interest in infinite, endless vision, something that can also be seen in the ‘all-over’ quality of her earlier work in painting, sculpture and installation. The nets covering Kusama’s Infinity Net paintings repeat across the surface of the paintings, suggesting an endless lattice. The scale of the largest of these paintings is visible in an offcut measuring almost ten metres wide. Even in the early 1960s when she first exhibited these works Kusama was keen that they should overwhelm the viewer’s visual field.
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Thanks for sharing this art work. It is amazing to see how Kusama has mixed her signature into her painting with different media. As you have mentioned that this piece is about infinite and looping of dots, can you think of something that is mortal and limited in this piece? Also, can you think of why she would like to put mirrors to show infinite and why she made it like a maze, is it because that makes us reflect on the mirror?
回覆刪除Lam
This artwork is awesome and unique. But you may have to think more about the reason why she created this works.Is she just want to show her interest in infinite? Or she would like to express some meaning?
回覆刪除I knew that she has a mental problem. So,this artwork may include some meaning that you haven't mentioned. Hope that it can help u
Thanks for your post. This work of art shows the vision of Yayoi Kusama. I can share her feelings of how the vision drove her into insanity that she wanted to commit suicide once when she was young.
回覆刪除The use of material of glasses and LED lights to create an infinitely expanding space is awesome. It is surely a breakthrough.
It makes me feel endless emptiness with the endless expansion. the colourful light in the endless space fascinated me but makes me feel lost at the same time. It must feel like floating in the universe if I could be in that room.
I did some research about Yayoi Kusama myself, and found that she is fond of using mirror in her work. Her early work named "Love Forever" may be reference of this Infinity Mirror Room. You might as well give it a look :)
Again, thank you very much for sharing.
Aaron Tsui
This work is very interesting and unique.
回覆刪除When I view at first time, I felt that I am in the gallaxy. Surrounding me, all things are shining like a star, and very dark but not totally dark, very beautiful and bright dark.
Your explnation is really easy for understanding, so I can imagine very well :) Thanks.
I just wondered your thoughts and feelings about the work. What is symbol of endlessness, and infinity for you?
Thanks :)
HyeonJi Kim.
This piece of art looks really cool! I would love to see it.
回覆刪除You have described it well, but I think you also need to tell us your own personal response to it. If you have been inside this room, how did it make you feel? If you have not, how does the picture you have included in your blog entry make you feel? Tell us why this is special!
Dear Daphne,
回覆刪除You describe the art work well, but I would be interested to know more about the context of the work. You mention the similarity of this work with some of her previous work (which should be more specific ie year, medium), but how is this work unique compared to those? Also can you find reference to her work in other artists or art movements? Maybe you can look into Outsider art, which often deals with the same kind of obsessiveness as Kusama.