Yayoi Kusama: Give Me Love documents the artist's most recent exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, which marked the US debut of The Obliteration Room, an all-white, domestic interior that viewers are invited to cover with dot stickers of various sizes and colors. Taking The Obliteration Room as its centerpiece, this catalogue reveals, in vivid large-scale plates, the transformation of the space from a clean white interior to a stunningly saturated room, with ceilings, walls, and furniture covered in myriad multicolored stickers put there by viewers over the course of the exhibition. The catalogue also includes beautiful reproductions of Kusama's new largeformat paintings from My Eternal Soul series.
Yayoi Kusama's work has transcended two of the most
important art movements of the second half of the twentieth
century: pop art and minimalism. Her extraordinary and highly
influential career spans paintings, performances, room-size
presentations, outdoor sculptural installations, literary works,
films, fashion, design, and interventions within existing
architectural structures, which allude at once to microscopic and
macroscopic universes.
Akira Tatehata is an art critic and poet based in Japan who
has written extensively about Yayoi Kusama's work. In 1993, he
invited the artist to represent Japan at the 45th Venice Biennale.
He now serves as the President of the Kyoto City University of
Arts, Director of The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, and Chairman
of the Japanese Council of Museums.
The Obliteration Room is "one of the most hotly anticipated aspects
of the Give Me Love show."--Christina Ohly Evans "Financial
Times"
"If a few minutes inside The Obliteration Room simply isn't enough
to satisfy your dot needs, the fun continues off-site..."--Alanna
Martinez "Observer"
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