In what's being called the nextRain Roomfor New York, eccentric Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is showing off her newest installations at David Zwirner gallery. CalledInfinity Mirrored Room – The Souls of Millions of Light Years AwayandLove Is Calling, expect these to be the must-visit installations this fall! (Translation: Expect long lines.)
InInfinity Mirrored Room, hundreds of multicolored LED lights, suspended at different heights and dangling from floor to ceiling, transform a room into what feels like an eternity. The cube-shaped, mirror-paneled room has a shallow reflecting pool as its floor and the lights flicker on and off in a strobe-like effect. Though similar to the ones Kusama has shown previously –Infinity Mirror Roomat the Tate Modern andFireflies on the Waterat the Whitney Museum of Art – this one was made especially for this exhibition and still promises the viewer a wonderfully surreal experience.
InLove is Calling, a darkened, mirrored room is illuminated by inflatable, tentacle-like forms–covered in the artist's characteristic polka dots–that extend from the floor and ceiling, gradually changing colors. Not only is this a visual experience, it's an auditory one, too. A sound recording of Kusama reciting a love poem in Japanese plays continuously. This installation was shown in Tokyo earlier this year as part of a group exhibition but it ‘s the very first time it's been shown in the United States.
The full exhibition, calledI Who Have Arrived In Heaven, spans the gallery's three consecutive locations and features, along with these installations, 27 new large-scale paintings. The exhibition will be showing from now till December 21, 2013. (What a fun place to take a selfie!)
First photo:Delissa Handoko
See more images of Yayoi Kusama's new Infinity Room installations.
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