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Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Rooms Coming to Atlanta in Fall 2018
February 13, 2017
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High Museum of Fine art to present the renowned Japanese artist's well-nigh meaning North American exhibition in 20 years
ATLANTA, February. 13, 2017 – The Loftier Museum of Art today announced that it has joined the national bout for "Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors," the kickoff survey exhibition to explore the evolution of the celebrated Japanese artist'southward immersive Infinity Mirror Rooms. Organized past the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Smithsonian'southward modern and contemporary art museum, the exhibition will be on view at the High from Nov. eighteen, 2018 through Feb. 17, 2019.
"Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors" provides visitors with the unique opportunity to experience half dozen of the artist's Infinity Mirror Rooms—her iconic kaleidoscopic environments—as well as boosted large-calibration installations, sculptures, paintings, works on paper, and archival photographs and films from the early 1950s through the present. The exhibition features numerous new works by the 87-twelvemonth-former artist, who is regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century and is notwithstanding very active in her Tokyo studio. New works include vibrantly colored paintings and the recently completed infinity room "All the Eternal Beloved I Accept for the Pumpkins" (2016), featuring dozens of Kusama's signature vivid-yellow, dotted pumpkin sculptures.
Spanning the unabridged 2nd floor of the High's Wieland Pavilion, the exhibition volition allow visitors to take a once-in-a-lifetime journeying through more than lx years of Kusama'due south creative genius.
"Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors" begins with the creative person'south original landmark installation, "Infinity Mirror Room—Phalli's Field" (1965/2016), featuring a vast expanse of red-spotted white tubers in a room lined with mirrors, which create a dazzling illusion of infinite space.
The exhibition volition too include "Infinity Mirrored Room—Dearest Forever"(1966/1994), a hexagonal chamber into which viewers peer from the outside to see colored flashing lights that reflect endlessly from ceiling to floor. The piece of work is a re-creation of Kusama's legendary 1966 mirror room "Kusama'south Peep Show" (or "Endless Love Prove"), in which the artist staged group performances in her studio.
Kusama'south signature bold polka dots will be featured in "Dots Obsession—Beloved Transformed into Dots" (2007), a domed mirror room surrounded by inflatables suspended from the ceiling. The artist's more recent LED environments, filled with lanterns or crystalline balls that seem to extend infinitely, will exist represented in "Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity" (2009) and "Infinity Mirrored Room—The Souls of Millions of Lite Years Away" (2013).
"Kusama's Infinity Mirror Rooms open onto places inside the imagination that are cute and transcendent. Similar sensory impecuniousness chambers, they go out the viewer grappling to reconcile the totality of the cosmos with a sense of microcosmic infinity within the body," said Michael Rooks, the Loftier'due south Wieland Family unit curator of modern and contemporary art. "It is an enormous privilege to present this foundational piece of work by Kusama."
Besides on view in the exhibition will exist a selection of more than sixty paintings, sculptures and works on paper, including many of Kusama's infrequently shown collages, which she made afterward returning to Japan following a stay in New York Metropolis from 1957 to 1973. These works trace the artist'south trajectory from her early on surrealist works on newspaper, "Infinity Cyberspace" paintings, and "Accumulation" assemblages to recent paintings and soft sculptures, which highlight recurring themes of nature and fantasy, utopia and dystopia, unity and isolation, obsession and detachment, and life and expiry.
The exhibition volition conclude with Kusama's iconic participatory installation "The Obliteration Room" (2002), an all-white replica of a traditional domestic setting. Upon entering, visitors will be invited to cover every surface of the furnished gallery with multicolored polka dot stickers to gradually engulf the unabridged infinite in color.
Prior to its presentation at the High, "Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors" volition exist on view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (February. 23–May 14, 2017); Seattle Art Museum (June 30–Sept. 10, 2017); The Broad, Los Angeles (Oct. 21, 2017–Jan. ten, 2018); Fine art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (March 3–May 27, 2018); and Cleveland Museum of Fine art (July 9–Sept. 30, 2018).
Exhibition Catalogue
"Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors" is accompanied by an exhibition catalogue that takes an unprecedented interdisciplinary arroyo to the artist's piece of work and includes a catalogue raisonné of Kusama'south Infinity Mirror Rooms, along with an illustrated chronology and artist biography with newly published archival material. Contributing authors introduce new research that sheds light on this pioneering gimmicky artist. The book includes essays by Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Associate Curator Mika Yoshitake; Gloria Sutton, banana professor of contemporary fine art history and new media at Northeastern University; and Alexander Dumbadze, professor of art history at The George Washington Academy. The essays are accompanied past an interview with Kusama past Hirshhorn Director Melissa Chiu.
Exhibition Organization
"Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors" is organized past the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
About the High Museum of Art
The High is the leading art museum in the southeastern United States. With more than 15,000 works of art in its permanent collection, the High Museum of Art has an extensive anthology of 19th- and 20th-century American art; a substantial collection of historical and contemporary decorative arts and design; significant holdings of European paintings; a growing collection of African American art; and burgeoning collections of mod and contemporary art, photography, folk and cocky-taught art, and African art. The High is also defended to supporting and collecting works past Southern artists. Through its education department, the High offers programs and experiences that engage visitors with the world of art, the lives of artists and the creative process. For more information about the High, visit high.org.
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Source: https://high.org/Press-Release/yayoi-kusama-feb-2017/
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