Overview
The Broad’s first visiting special exhibition, Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, was the first institutional survey to explore the celebrated Japanese artist’s immersive Infinity Mirror Rooms. This exhibition embarked on the most significant North American tour of her work in nearly two decades, and The Broad was the only California museum to host the exhibition.
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors provided visitors with the unique opportunity to experience six of Kusama’s infinity rooms—the artist’s most iconic kaleidoscopic environments—alongside large-scale installations and key paintings, sculptures and works on paper from the early 1950s to the present, which contextualize the foundational role the concept of infinity has played in the artist’s work over many decades and through diverse media. The traveling exhibition marked the North American debut of numerous new works by the 88-year-old artist, who is still actively creating in her Tokyo studio. These include large-scale, vibrantly colored paintings and her most recent infinity room, All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, 2016.
“I am deeply interested in trying to understand the relationship between people, society, and nature; and my work is forged from accumulations of these frictions.”
Chronology
Image credits: Images 1-4 & 7 courtesy and © Yayoi Kusama. Image 5: Yayoi Kusama, installation view of Infinity Mirror Room—Phalli's Field, 1965/2017, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore; Victoria Miro, London; David Zwirner, New York. © Yayoi Kusama. Photo by Cathy Carver. Image 6: Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrored Room—Love Forever, 1966/1994, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Wood, mirrors, metal, and lightbulbs. Photo by Cathy Carver. Image 8: © Yayoi Kusama. Image 9: Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore; Victoria Miro, London; David Zwirner, New York. © Yayoi Kusama. Photo by Cathy Carver. Image 10: Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo / Singapore and Victoria Miro, London. © Yayoi Kusama. Image 11: Courtesy of David Zwirner, NY. © Yayoi Kusama. Image 12: Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo / Singapore and Victoria Miro, London. © Yayoi Kusama.
Credits
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors is organized by Mika Yoshitake, curator, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. The exhibition is traveling to several major museums in the United States and Canada, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (February 23-May 14, 2017), Seattle Art Museum (June 30-Sept. 10, 2017), The Broad, Los Angeles (October 21, 2017-January 1, 2018), Art Gallery of Ontario (March 3-May 27, 2018), Cleveland Museum of Art (July 9-September 30, 2018) and The High Museum, Atlanta (November 18, 2018-February 17, 2019).
#infiniteLA
We teamed up with FLAUNT Magazine for #infiniteLA, a series of videos featuring an array of Los Angeles leaders, including artist Mark Bradford, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied, seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones, Homeboy Industries founder Father Greg Boyle and more, discussing the themes explored in the Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors exhibition.
Highlighted Artwork
