![]() Previously home to large-scale installations from the likes of Olafur Eliasson, Kara Walker, Ai Weiwei, and Rachel Whiteread, it’s pretty illustrious company, isn’t it? What does that end up looking like? Check out Tate Modern’s fun timelapse video to see:Īside from redecorating the blank canvas of an apartment (maybe it’ll give you some interior design inspiration?), guests can also create their own work of art that’ll be added to a growing display in the cavernous Turbine Hall. Walls, ceilings, crockery, sofas, and the floor are all fair game here, the only brief is to make things as colourful as possible. There’s no limits to what you can decorate. Whilst it’s a lovely and wholesome activity for the whole family – getting the little ‘uns creating an artwork at the Tate is definitely a flex – it’s also an excellent way to brighten up your social media feeds. ![]() And, on August 26, Tate Lates are inviting you down for a celebration of the revered artist at the obliteration room. The obliteration room opened on July 23 as part of the UNIQLO Tate Play series and will run until August 29. You’re invited to enter a bare white apartment, armed to the teeth with an array of colourful dots, and let your creative juices flow… But now visitors to Tate Modern have the chance to take a stab at creating their own immersive work, thanks to Kusama’s interactive artwork The obliteration room. Stepping into an infinity room is quite the experience. Kusama was recently named the world’s most popular artist, based on figures for global museum attendance and, in 2016, was selected as one of TIME Magazine’s World’s 100 Most Influential People.There’s no doubting the most Instagrammable attraction at Tate Modern right now: it’s surely got to be Yayoi Kusama’s dazzling infinity rooms, which will be in residence until June 2023. By the mid-1960s Kusama had become well known in the art world for her provocative happenings and exhibitions.įor almost 70 years Kusama has been engaged in a practice encompassing painting, collage, sculpture, performance, film, installation and environmental art, as well as literature, product design and fashion, including a collaboration with Louis Vuitton in 2012. The obliteration room, originally developed by Yayoi Kusama for the Queensland Art Gallery’s APT 2002: Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, has toured to London, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janiero, Brasilia, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Shanghai, South Korea, Switzerland and France, as well as the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in New Zealand.īorn 1929, Kusama studied painting in Kyoto before moving to New York in the late 1950s. The domestic environment with local characteristics creates an air of familiarity that makes participants, especially children, comfortable enough to engage with the work with little or no prompting. The obliteration room is a reflection of this hallucinogenic vision, as well as a way of embracing the whole world in a kind of overall pattern. The work relates to hallucinations Kusama began to experience in childhood, where her vision was clouded by spots. Her mesmerising paintings, sculptures and installations have entranced people across the globe and it is our pleasure to deliver and share this playful, engaging and creative experience with Aucklanders and visitors to the city alike.’ ![]() ‘Kusama was recently named the world’s most popular artist. Moving away from the traditional restrictions of a Gallery space, it encourages everyone to touch, engage and create in an entirely self-directed way,’ she says.ĭevenport says it is an honour to have such an internationally well-loved and revered artist as Kusama exhibit at Auckland Art Gallery. ‘The obliteration room makes artists of us all. The white walls, ceiling, furniture and objects in the space will be obliterated over time by the mass build-up of dots into a dizzying blur of colour as visitors apply brightly coloured stickers in various sizes to every surface.Īuckland Art Gallery Director Rhana Devenport says Kusama’s work welcomes people into a space to become collaborators on a celebrated artwork that has travelled the world. Kusama’s family-friendly participatory installation in the Gallery’s Creative Learning Centre begins as a New Zealand living room drained of colour which will function as a blank canvas ready to be invigorated. The Creative Thinking Project and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki join forces to present the work of Yayoi Kusama - Obliteration Room.Ī rainbow of brightly coloured dots will obliterate a pure white room when avant-garde Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s The obliteration room opens on Saturday 9 December 2017 at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
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