For decades, Yayoi Kusama has dotted the walls of the Brisbane Gallery of Modern Art and Queensland Art Gallery, with her wondrous, engulfing artworks. Throughout her career, bright lights, lurid colours, patterns, repetitions and immersive, interactive installations have become synonymous with her name; as well as of course, spots.
From Saturday November 4, GOMA will be playing host to Life is the Heart of a Rainbow, a collection of some of Kusama’s finest works from across a career of more than 60 years. Pieces formed collaboratively between the artist and QAGOMA for the ‘The 4th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ will be popping up once again, as well as a large and diverse study of work from across the vast career of the “Priestess of Polka Dots”.
Returning to the museum once again are some of the more popular works from her later career – The Obliteration Room, a space where people are invited to ‘obliterate’ a space by adding colourful dot stickers to white furniture, objects and surfaces. The Infinity Room is also a new addition that features a mirrored room with glowing, coloured orbs of light hanging just out of reach; a deliciously sensory experience. Over 70 of her pieces will be on display, including early painterly experiments, performances, soft sculptures and some of her more recent paintings from her “My Eternal Soul” series (which is made up of over 500 canvases and is an ongoing piece).
Whacky, wonderful and indeed, inclined to making you feel just a little dotty, Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow exhibits at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art from Saturday November 4 2017 to 11 February 2018. Entry is free.
For more information, check out the gallery website here.
