The Obliteration Room Dimana

An all white room complete with furniture where guests can obliterate the space with colorful circular stickers.

The obliteration room dimana. When the obliteration room was created by yayoi kusama for the queensland art gallery it was for the purposes of engagement with children. Reworked and enlarged in 2011 for the gallery s yayoi kusama. Look now see forever exhibition at goma the work became a social media phenomenon when images of the progressive. Although the target audience is children the work has the ability to relate to teenagers and adults alike and i think that says something about the nature of engagement and how museums can use this to its advantage.

Rabbit town s patrico sticker room. Beginning as a stark white interior it encourages you to transform the space of our creative learning centre by saturating it with a rainbow of brightly coloured dots. 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 2002 present sponsored by santos glng and supported by ikea logan is an interactive work initially developed by senior japanese artist yayoi kusama in collaboration with the queensland art gallery as a children s project for apt2002.

Perhaps you ve always dreamed of visiting a yayoi kusama exhibit. Asia pacific triennial of contemporary art. Well rabbit town has the patrico sticker room their own version of the obliteration room. The museum will continue to upload images of the evolving space until the exhibition closes in march.

It was made sometime in the late 1940s or 50s and included a lot of out of date political boundaries. Yayoi kusama s interactive obliteration room begins as a white space which visitors are invited to cover with stickers. The globe i donated to the obliteration room was well used before it arrived in our house. Over the course of a few weeks the room is transformed from a blank canvas into an explosion of colour with thousands of spots stuck over every available surface.

Avant garde japanese artist yayoi kusama was an influential figure in the postwar new york art scene staging provocative happenings and exhibiting works such as her infinity nets hallucinatory paintings of loops and dots and physical representations of the idea of infinity. 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.