Yayoi kusama infinity mirrored room

Бесконечная зеркальная комната от Yayoi Kusama

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Яей Кусама знакома постоянным читателям сайта Kulturologia.Ru благодаря своим экспериментам с визуальной составляющей жилых пространств. С помощью разноцветных точек и прочих мелких элементов она увеличивает, искривляет, растягивает комнаты. Теперь же Кусама решила поэкспериментировать с зеркалами.

В итоге появилась весьма необычная инсталляция с названием Infinity Mirror Room (Бесконечная зеркальная комната). Ведь в помещении, все стены которого от пола до потолка, от угла до угла превращены в зеркала, действительно, будет казаться, будто пространство вокруг не имеет границ. Особенно, если установить в ней ориентиры для визуальной привязки.

Вот такими ориентирами в инсталляции Infinity Mirror Room и стали разноцветные светодиоды. В условиях отсутствия верхнего освещения, эти диоды создают удивительнейшую атмосферу в комнате. Человеку, попавшему туда, кажется, будто он попал в волшебный мир, населенный миллионами огоньков, которые меняют цвет и положение. Причем, картина эта абсолютно меняется, стоит только человеку чуть изменить свое положение в пространстве или угол зрения, а светодиоду – цвет.

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Infinity Mirror Rooms

Yayoi Kusama had a breakthrough in 1965 when she produced Infinity Mirror Room—Phalli’s Field. Using mirrors, she transformed the intense repetition of her earlier paintings and works on paper into a perceptual experience.

Over the course of her career, the artist has produced more than twenty distinct Infinity Mirror Rooms, and the Hirshhorn’s exhibition—the first to focus on this pioneering body of work—is presenting six of them, the most ever shown together. Ranging from peep-show-like chambers to multimedia installations, each of Kusama’s kaleidoscopic environments offers the chance to step into an illusion of infinite space. The rooms also provide an opportunity to examine the artist’s central themes, such as the celebration of life and its aftermath.

By tracing the development of these iconic installations alongside a selection of her other key artworks, Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors aims to reveal the significance of the Infinity MIrror Rooms amidst today’s renewed interest in experiential practices and virtual spaces.

Infinity Mirror Room—Phalli’s Field

1965/2016
Stuffed cotton, board, and mirrors
Collection of the artist

Kusama spent much of her time between 1962 and 1964 sewing thousands of stuffed fabric tubers and grafting them to furniture and found objects to create her Accumulation sculptures. She exhibited the works together in an attempt to create hallucinatory scenes of phallic surfaces but found the labor involved in making them physically and mentally taxing. In response to the labor intensity of this work, she started to utilize mirrors to achieve similar repetition. Infinity Mirror Room— Phalli’ s Field was perhaps the most important breakthrough for Kusama during this immensely fruitful period. The reflective surfaces allowed her vision to transcend the physical limitations of her own productivity. Furthermore, the mirrors created a participatory experience by casting the visitor as the subject of the work, a feature that the artist demonstrated through a provocative series of self-portraits in which she used her body to activate the space. This work first appeared in the exhibition Floor Show, held at Castellane Gallery, in New York, in 1965.

Infinity Mirrored Room—Love Forever

1966/1994
Wood, mirrors, metal, and lightbulbs
Collection of Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore

Infinity Mirrored Room—Love Forever is an iteration of the second mirrored environment Kusama created. Sculptural, architectural, and performative, the installation blurs the lines between artistic disciplines and is activated by audience participation. Hexagonal in shape and mirrored on all sides, Love Forever features two peepholes that invite visitors to peer in and see both themselves and another participant repeated into infinity. At the time Kusama created this Infinity Mirror Room, she was experimenting with new technology and viewed the work as a “machine for animation.” During the 1966 exhibition opening of Kusama’s Peep Show, which featured this work, Kusama distributed buttons with the message “Love Forever” printed on them. For the artist, the concept of “Love Forever” stood for civil rights, sexual liberation, the antiwar movement, and the activist groups of the 1960s.

Infinity Mirrored Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away

2013
Wood, metal, mirrors, plastic, acrylic, rubber, and LED lighting system
Collection of the artist; The Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles

Infinity Mirrored Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away is an immersive environment that fosters an out-of-body experience, heightens one’s senses, and produces a repetitive illusion through the use of lights and mirrors. Similar in appearance to stars in the galaxy, hundreds of LED lights hang and flicker in a rhythmic pattern that seems to suspend both space and time. The visitor becomes integral to this work as his or her body activates the environment while simultaneously vanishing into the infinite space. The ethereal nature of the installation can be traced back to the early 2000s, when Kusama began making dimly lit mirrored rooms, a departure from her earlier brightly colored and polka-dotted spaces. Continuing her exploration of the transience of life and the inevitability of death, this installation creates a harmonious and quiet place for visitors to contemplate their existence, reflect on the passage of time, and think about their relationship to the outer world.

Dots Obsession—Love Transformed into Dots

2007, installed 2017
Vinyl balloons, balloon dome with mirror room, peep-in mirror dome, and video projection
Courtesy Victoria Miro, London

In 1996, Kusama began creating a series of installations incorporating polka-dotted balloons. Hanging from the ceiling and occupying the floor, these inflatable objects disrupt the viewer’s path. Visitors can enter a mirrored room inside one of the balloons or peer inside another. The work engages visitors on contrasting scales: the tiny micro-space seen through a peephole and the macro life-sized space that envelops the viewer within the installation. A video monitor hanging from the ceiling of the gallery features Kusama singing one of her poems.

Infinity Mirrored Room—Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity

2009
Wood, mirror, plastic, acrylic, LEDs, and aluminum
Collection of the artist

In Infinity Mirrored Room—Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity, golden lanterns flicker, creating a shimmering pattern of light that contrasts with the seemingly endless void of the mirrored black space. For Kusama, obliteration is a reflection on the experience of death and the potential of the afterlife. The imagery in this work recalls the Japanese tradition of toro nagashi, a ceremony in which paper lanterns known as chochin float down a river to guide ancestral spirits back to their resting places on the final night of the summer obon festivals. The ceremony often commemorates the victims of the atomic bombs. Mesmerizing and intimate, Kusama’s poetic installation underscores the impermanence of life and the certitude of death.

Infinity Mirrored Room—All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins

2016
Wood, mirrors, plastic, acrylic, and LEDs
Collection of the artist

Coming from a family that cultivated and sold plant seeds for a living, Kusama saw a pumpkin for the first time during a childhood visit to a seed-harvesting farm with her grandfather. Nestled into the landscape between fields of zinnia, periwinkle, and nasturtium flowers, she spotted an unusually shaped gourd the size of a man’s head. The artist was attracted to the pumpkin for its “charming and winsome form,” celebrating its lumpy, unpretentious, organic shape. The pumpkin motif first appeared in some of Kusama’s drawings from the late 1940s and has repeatedly shown up in her paintings, sculptures, drawings, and installations. Her initial pumpkin mirrored room was staged in 1991 and was later displayed at the 1993 Venice Biennale. Stepping into Infinity Mirrored Room—All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, one is transported to a space that recalls fairytales and fantasy. The glowing pumpkins, modeled after the Japanese kabocha squash, are married with Kusama’s signature polka dot pattern within an infinitely repeating space.

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Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Rooms

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Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrored Room — Filled with the Brilliance of Life 2011/2017 Tate Presented by the artist, Ota Fine Arts and Victoria Miro 2015, accessioned 2019 © YAYOI KUSAMA

Step into infinite space

Tate presents a rare chance to experience two of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms. These immersive installations will transport you into Kusama’s unique vision of endless reflections.

Infinity Mirrored Room – Filled with the Brilliance of Life is one of Kusama’s largest installations to date and was made for her 2012 retrospective at Tate Modern. It is shown alongside Chandelier of Grief, a room which creates the illusion of a boundless universe of rotating crystal chandeliers.

A small presentation of photographs and moving image – some on display for the first time – provides historical context for the global phenomenon that Kusama’s mirrored rooms have become today.

Born in 1929 in Matsumoto, Japan, Kusama came to international attention in 1960s New York for a wide-ranging creative practice that has encompassed installation, painting, sculpture, fashion design and writing. Since the 1970s she has lived in Tokyo, where she continues to work prolifically and to international acclaim.

Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Rooms is presented in The George Economou Gallery. This exhibition is in partnership with Bank of America, with additional support from Uniqlo.

Please read our safety guidelines below before you visit.

Kusama Lunch experience

Choose the 12.00 or 12.15 entry to the exhibition and enjoy a Yayoi Kusama-inspired lunch in the Kitchen and Bar afterwards.

• £35 for exhibition entry and two course lunch.
• £25 for Members and Supporters.

Exhibition guides

Our exhibition guide explores the exhibition room by room.

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Accessibility

Tate Modern’s entrance is via the Turbine Hall on Holland Street. There are automatic sliding doors and a ramp down to the entrance.

The Exhibition is on Level 4 of the Blavatnik Building. There are lifts to every floor of the Blavatnik and Nathalie Bell buildings. Alternatively you can take the stairs.

• Fully accessible toilets are located on every floor on the concourses.
• A quiet room is available to use in the Natalie Bell Building on Level 4.
• Ear defenders can be borrowed from the Ticket desks.

For more information before your visit:

Call +44 (0)20 7887 8888 – option 1 (daily 09.45–18.00)

Safety guidelines

Visitor numbers are being carefully managed to ensure that your visit is as safe and comfortable as possible. There are increased cleaning regimes in high use areas and protective screens on desks and counters. We are only accepting card or contactless payments and have installed hand sanitiser dispensers throughout the gallery.

When you visit:

All visitors are required to wear face coverings in our galleries, apart from those who are exempt. Not all exemptions are visible so please be understanding of others.

Most importantly if you are feeling unwell, help keep everyone safe by staying at home.

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TEMPORARILY CLOSED—Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms

Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away (2013) and Longing for Eternity (2017), are closed at this time. Be the first to know when these immersive experiences will reopen—sign up for our email newsletters!

How to See Infinity Mirrored Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away

Notice: This installation is a mirror-lined room with flashing LED lights that you physically enter with a door that closes behind you. If you are uncomfortable with flashing lights and/or enclosed, dark spaces, please bypass this experience.

1. Obtain an admission ticket (either a free general admission ticket or a special exhibition ticket) by booking online on The Broad’s website, or by joining The Broad’s onsite standby line in the morning (the earlier, the better), and enter the museum. For the best chance to view this Infinity Mirrored Room, make your ticket reservation for a timeslot in the morning or in the very early afternoon.
2. Once inside the museum, visit the iPad kiosk in the lobby to join the first-come, first-served virtual queue for The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away. You will need to enter your mobile phone number and first name. You will receive an approximate wait time.
3. Enjoy the rest of the museum! You will receive a text message 10 minutes before your turn so that you have time to make your way to The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away.
4. Follow the instructions included in the text message and proceed to The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away. Ask any Visitor Experience Team Member for help or directions.
5. Check in with the Visitor Experience Team Member at the room and wait in a short line for your turn. Enjoy!

How to see Longing for Eternity

Notice: This installation is a mirror-lined chamber with flashing LED lights that viewers look into. If you are uncomfortable with flashing lights and/or enclosed, dark spaces, please bypass this experience.

1. Longing for Eternity is located on the third floor of The Broad. Ask any Visitor Experience Team Member for directions to this artwork. Once you have arrived at Longing for Eternity, join the short line to view the artwork, or ask a Visitor Experience Team Member for help.

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