![]() Always taking inspiration from the artists and artworks on display at Tate Modern, UNIOLO Tate Play offers families new ways to play together and get creative, with over 147,000 people having taken part so far. New projects are staged each school holiday, alongside free activities and creative materials during term time. UNIOLO Tate Play was first launched in 202 l with the hugely popular installation: Ei Arakawa’s Mega Please Draw Freely, in which families could draw all over the floor of the Turbine Hall. Since the 1970s Kusama has lived in Tokyo, where she continues to work prolifically and to international acclaim. The artist has been the subject of exhibitions around the world, including a major travelling retrospective initiated by Tate Modern in 2012 and the recently extended exhibition of Infinity Mirror Rooms, now open until l l June 2023. The work reflects Kusama’s enduring obsessions with accumulation, obliteration, and becoming one with the artwork.īorn in 1929 in Matsumoto, Japan, Yayoi Kusama came to international attention in l 960s New York for a wide-ranging creative practice that has encompassed installation, painting, sculpture, fashion design and writing. Visitors are handed a sticker sheet of colourful dots with which to leave their mark on this stark interior, which slowly becomes transformed into a riot of colour. ![]() Originally commissioned by the Queensland Art Gallery in Australia, the installation consists of a completely white space fully furnished with entirely white furniture. The obliteration room is one of Kusama’s most ambitious interactive works. As well as having a chance to cover every available surface of the installation with bright circular stickers, families will also be able to create their own work of art to add to an ever-growing garden in the Turbine Hall. Yayoi Kusama’s The obliteration room opens on 23 July as part of UNIOLO Tate Play, Tate Modem’s free programme of playful art-inspired activities for families. Visitors of all ages will help transform a blank white apartment into a sea of colourful dots this summer 2022. ![]() Also on view are the Japanese artist’s polka-dot pumpkin sculptures and paintings from her My Eternal Soul series.Kusama is bringing a dotty playground for kids to decorate during the school summer holidays. The dotty exhibition is part of the larger exhibition by Kusama called Give Me Love on view at David Zwirner until June 13. (Courtesy Yayoi Kusama)įor the first time, Obliteration Room is housed in a traditional American prefabricated home, the soothing facade of picket fence normalcy giving way to a visually confounding world. The once antiseptically bare rooms soon become psychedelically colorful as viewers vicariously experience the dot-filled hallucinations that have plagued Kusama since childhood. A reiteration of her signature interactive work, exhibited around the world since 2002, Obliteration Room comprises a nondescript domestic backdrop awash in stark-white paint.Įach guest to enter the gallery is presented with brightly colored dot stickers and invited to plaster them anywhere they please-on the sofa, the kitchen cabinets, the coffee table, the teapot, or even the grand piano. Publicly deranged artist Yayoi Kusama is bringing her dotty otherworld to the United States for the first time with an exhibition of Obliteration Room at New York City’s David Zwirner Gallery.
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