Renowned artist Yayoi Kusama created an interactive installation at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, based on explosive color. Follow me after the jump to to see what her blank palette transformed into...
Thousands of colorful sticker dots were applied by children during the course of the exhibition. The pure white room eventually turned into a chaotic obliteration of color. It changed the room into an almost two-dimensional space that alters one's sense of place and perception.
Read more about the installation on the artist's website.
(Images: Yayoi Kusama)
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Some of those kids were TALL to hit the ceiling! ;^)
The finished product makes me nauseous to look at it. Yikes.
I feel like we've seen this featured many times already.
I'm getting tired of seeing this. Please stop regurgitating old content. I thought it was cool the first time it was featured, but now you're just detracting from it.
I have followed AT faithfully for the past few years, and I have never seen this post before.
I have been following AT for at least five years, and I've never seen this post before either...
Well, I'm glad this was posted/reposted, because it is a strong piece and I have not seen it before.
It elicited a strong WHOA from me. From the almost sterile whiteness of the original room to the chaos of the room decorated by the visiting children (were adults allowed to attach stickers too?) what an interesting installation.
Yuck. I cringed when I saw it. Don't like it one bit.
Fascinating process, fascinating result. And I, too, am a longtime AT fan and have never seen this post before. (I dimly recall a room in which everything was painted in multicolored blotches, but it wasn't this with the stickers.) Nausea seems like an overblown reaction, to
say the least. . . .
Hadn't seen this, but the first pic reminds me of an episode of Trading Spaces years ago where one owner was stuck with t a completely white room at the end.
I can appreciate many forms of art; many examples pop up here on AT and I get the point of this, but it's still over the top stupid. Renowned? Why? Don't want to know.
This work was shown on AT on 01.04.2012. Link below.
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/the-obliteration-roomyayoi-kus-163762
I think I liked it better white. But the kids would have fun doing it.
Tangential story - I once complained to a friend/colleague that my desk was bright orange metal. I told her that I thought it was the ugliest desk in the universe and I couldn't see how it could be any uglier. When I came into work the next morning, she had put big blue dots all over it. I still laugh when I think about it.
My first time to see this. I hope it's my last. I really do NOT see how this is considered art.
Yeeeesh - tough crowd. Warhol said, "Art is anything you can get away with." It's art. And at the very least, very fun.
@Dulcibella, thanks for your story! I'm laughing out loud thinking about it!