Wednesday, July 11, 2018
We managed to get tickets to the
Yayoi Kusama:
Infinity Mirrors exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Our timed tickets were for 16:15.
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Cleveland Museum of Art atrium with parts of the
Kusama exhibition including the pink "balloons"
rising up from the lower level |
The line of people with tickets first goes to the mirrored "room" (
Infinity Mirrored Room: Where the Lights in My Heart Go, 2016) to the left, where no more than 3 persons can enter at a time for no more than 20 seconds.
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| Detail of Narcissus Garden (originally 1966) (KSS) |
We took the escalator down to the main exhibition. There are several of these Infinity Mirrored Rooms for no more than three persons at a time, for no more than 20 seconds. The last few rooms gave you 30 seconds!
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There is a stand outside each room to leave
anything you are carrying, except a camera (KSS) |
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| Infinity Mirrored Room: Phalli's Field (1965) (KSS) |
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| Baby Stroller (1962) from the Accumulation series |
Kusama spent hours hand-sewing and stuffing these phallic-shaped tubers and attaching them to walls, furniture, and found objects. She then discovered she could use mirrors to multiply the number and save herself some labor!
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| Infinity Mirrored Room: Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity (2009) (KSS) |
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| Infinity-Nets (2005) |
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Infinity-Nets detail showing the effect of painting
thousands of small arcs on a darker background |
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| Accumulation of Stardust (2001) |
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| Accumulation of Stardust detail (no brush strokes) |
Instead of walking into a mirrored room, you peek into a window for this one:
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| Infinity Mirrored Room: Love Forever (1966) (KSS) |
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| Infinity Mirrored Room: Love Forever (KSS) |
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| My Eternal Soul (begun 2009) showing part of over 550 works (KSS) |
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Surrounded by Heartbeats (2014) and
My Adolescence in Bloom (2014) |
No photos were allowed in the
Infinity Mirrored Room: All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins (2016), with Kusama's iconic polka-dotted pumpkins/squashes. In fact, you were accompanied into the room by a staff member.
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Dots Obsession: Love Transformed into Dots
(2007) has a mirrored room in a pink ball |
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| Dots Obsession mirrored room (KSS) |
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| Dots Obsession floating up a level (KSS) |
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| Life: Repetitive Vision (1998) (KSS) |
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| Life: Repetitive Vision detail |
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Infinity Mirrored Room: The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away
(2013) (KSS) |
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The Obliteration Room where visitors are given
a small sheet of polka dot stickers to help obliterate
the original white room |
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"In this space, the polka dots act as a universal
equalizer, a connector between all of us as we
collectively participate in obliterating the
environment by placing dots in the installation." |
We would love to see
The Obliteration Room at the end of the exhibition!
