Yayoi Kusama’s New Exhibition at Victoria Miro Gallery
95-years-old Japanese artist, known for her polka dots, infinity mirror rooms and grand pumpkin sculptures, Yayoi Kusama has opened her 14th solo exhibition with Victoria Miro Gallery in London. The exhibition consists of a brand new infinity room, two large scale installations, paintings and sculptures.
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Yayoi Kusama: Every Day I Pray for Love
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Yayoi Kusama is one of the top selling artists in the world and an Internet sensation since Tate Modern opened its ‘Infinity Mirrored Room’ exhibition last year. The exhibition has been extended multiple times due to high demand but many of us sadly still missed the opportunity to visit.
Kusama’s new exhibition ‘Yayoi Kusama: Every Day I Pray for Love’ at Victoria Miro Gallery is completely free and features a brand new infinity mirror room.
Infinity Mirrored Room – Beauty Described by a Spherical Heart
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The brand new infinity room is called ‘Beauty Described by a Spherical Heart’ and only six people are allowed inside at a time to maximise the experience.
Visitors are allowed to spend a very limited time inside the hexagonal room, but it still very much of an experience.
The infinity room features coloured flashing LED lights enclosed in a hexagonal room, arranged in a concentric pattern. A large, mirrored sphere is hanging in the middle of the room to create spectacular reflections of visitors and the mirrored walls, widening the space endlessly echoing everything and everybody in it.
Large-Scale Installations
‘The Moment of Regeneration’ – 2024
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The exhibition features two large-scale installations.
‘The Moment of Regeneration’ is a recent artwork by Kusama, featuring a series of tree-like installations emerging from the ground and branching outward.
The artwork is decorated with Kusama’s signature polka dot patterns and made from staffed fabric.
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‘Death Nerves’ is a monumental artwork from 2022. It was originally commissioned by M+ museum, Hong Kong to be featured as part of their exhibition in 2022, entitled: ‘Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now’.
The 15-metre (49ft) long installation consists of a series of multi-coloured staffed and sewn fabric elements hanging from the ceiling of the upper gallery all the way down to reach the floor on the ground floor.
The artwork is reminiscent of a forest of multicoloured tendrils, vines or nervous system. Despite of its title, the installation emphasises the cycle of regeneration and the interconnectedness of life and death.
Every Day I Pray for Love – Paintings
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‘Every Day I Pray for Love’ is the title of Yayoi Kusama’s painting series consisting of a number of artworks she has created over the years.
This exhibition is featuring many of the artist’s most recent works. Kusama uses bold colours and embeds eyes and faces into her paintings along with hand-written messages in English and Japanese.
Each painting creates an extraordinary microscopic and macroscopic universe at the same time.
Practical Info
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Address
Victoria Miro Gallery | 16 Wharf Rd, London N1 7RW
Opening Times
25 Sept – 2 Nov 2024
Tue-Sat: 10am – 6pm
Sun & Mon: CLOSED
Tickets
Entry is free for all, but booking is essential.
Unfortunately, the exhibition is fully booked, however, it’s still not impossible to get in.
If someone can’t make it or changes their mind, the unused tickets are automatically re-released on the booking page. So, keep an eye on the gallery’s website, you might get lucky. Fingers crossed!
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