Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has taken a new outlook on the connection of space and color.  Her new exhibit at Australia’s Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), called “Look Now, See Forever”, features the “The Obliteration Room”.  It opened on November 4, 2011 until March 2012. Kusama remade a traditional Australian living space, which included chairs, tables, a piano, lamps, couches and other household objects.  All of these components (along with the walls, ceiling and floor) were painted stark white. read more

Kusama then invited all children visiting the museum to cover the “home-like canvas” with colorful dot stickers any which way they liked.  Dots of red, blue, green, yellow and orange, both small and large were passed out in thousands.  These dots mimic a selection of the primary hues found in the CAUS Youth Spring/Summer 2012 color palette, including colors such as “Heirloom”, “Lake”, “Snap Pea”, “Meringue” and “Baby Carrot”.  As quoted by the Gallery “The white room is gradually obliterated over the course of the exhibition, the space changing measurably with the passage of time as the dots accumulate as a result of thousands and thousands of collaborators.”  Kusama has a simplistic way of turning a lifeless home into a vibrantly spotted explosion of colors.

Are you bold enough to bring color into your home?

© Yayoi Kusama / Image courtesy: Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo

Image credits: http://interactive.qag.qld.gov.au/looknowseeforever/