The Obliteration Room Auckland

Welcome to the obliteration room.

The obliteration room auckland. The white room works as a canvas for visitors its furniture and details blend in together as colorful dots take over. Avant garde artist yayoi kusama s the obliteration room has one more week left at auckland art gallery. Each person is handed a sheet of stickers alls dots. Asia pacific triennial of contemporary art the obliteration room has toured to london buenos aires rio de janiero brasilia sao paulo mexico city shanghai south korea.

With the familiar characteristics of a typical aotearoa new zealand home the obliteration room at auckland art gallery encourages visitors especially children to experience and engage with the artwork with little or no prompting. The obliteration room 2002 present is a family friendly and participatory installation by one of the world s most popular well loved artists yayoi kusama b. The obliteration room was fist displayed at the queensland art gallery in 2002 as an art project for children and in 2012 it was presented at tate modern. The story behind it is that as a young girl the artist started seeing the world through a screen of dots which covered everything she looked at.

Originally developed by yayoi kusama for the queensland art gallery s apt 2002. With the familiar characteristics of a typical aotearoa new zealand home the obliteration room at auckland art gallery encourages visitors especially children to experience and engage with the. 1929 matsumoto japan a stark white room depicting items typically found in a new zealand is the canvas for this interactive experience. More than 130 000 visitors have applied over 2 6 million dots in the room since last december.