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“Metropolitan Museum of Art: Exhibit in the Gallery of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas” [submission]

#artselfie in Yayoi Kusama’s “Infinity Room—Phalli’s Field” in Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Yayoi Kusama, born 1929, is a Japanese artist. She is known for her paintings, sculptures, performance art, and installations in a variety of styles, including Pop art and Minimalism. By her own account, Kusama began painting as a child, at about the time she began experiencing hallucinations that often involved fields of dots. Those hallucinations and the theme of dots would continue to inform her art throughout her career. Her early work included what she called “infinity net” paintings. Those consisted of thousands of tiny marks obsessively repeated across large canvases without regard for the edges of the canvas, as if they continued into infinity. Such works explored the physical and psychological boundaries of painting, with the seemingly endless repetition of the marks creating an almost hypnotic sensation. Her paintings from that period anticipated the emerging Minimalist movement, but her work soon transitioned to Pop art and performance art. She became a central figure in the New York avant-garde, and her work was exhibited alongside that of such artists as Donald Judd, Claes Oldenburg, and Andy Warhol. Obsessive repetition continued to be a theme in Kusama’s sculpture and installation art, which she began to exhibit in the early 1960s. The theme of sexual anxiety can be seen in her famous installation from 1965, “Infinity Mirror Room—Phalli’s Field”, a mirrored room whose floors were covered with hundreds of small soft stuffed phalli constructed from white fabric that had been painted with red dots. Mirrors gave her the opportunity to create infinite planes in her installations, and she would continue to use them in later pieces. The Infinity Mirror Room—Phalli’s Field was a first of a series of mirrored rooms that captivate viewers in museums all over the world. #yayoikasama #kasama #infinityroom #phallisfield #arthistory #historyofart #boymansvanbeuningen #rotterdam — by @jvermaire http://ift.tt/1v4D4ie