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Infinite Jest
To Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room and beyond at David Zwirner
ON THE HEELS OF A MASSIVE COLLABORATION WITH LOUIS VUITTON
that saw her style applied to clothes, accessories and, most coveted of all, the Maison’s signature bags, Yayoi Kusama unveiled her latest works on May 11 at David Zwirner’s Chelsea galleries in New York City.
The exhibition, “I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers,” is set to be one of Kusama’s largest gallery exhibitions to date with new paintings and sculptures focused on the artist’s familiar motifs: pumpkins and flowers. The Japanese artist will also be presenting a new Infinity Mirrored Room — arguably her most famous, or at least most Instagrammed, medium. Kusama’s previous Infinity Mirrored Rooms have plunged the viewer into never-ending universes filled with star-like luminous orbs, polka dot-covered pumpkins, chandeliers,
and other optically-interesting visual phenomena.
It wouldn’t be a stretch to call Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Rooms one of the
most popular and influential projects in contemporary art, inspiring long lines whenever one is opened to the public, with patrons eager to immerse themselves in the Japanese artist’s vibrant world and, most importantly, document it. During the last Yayoi Kusama exhibition at David Zwirner, in 2019, the gallery was forced to implement a one-minute time constraint to accommodate the 75,000 people who lined up to step inside “DANCING LIGHTS THAT FLEW UP TO THE UNIVERSE”.
The exhibition’s opening will also coincide with the tenth anniversary of Kusama’s first gallery show with David Zwirner.
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TEXT BY MARC RICHARDSON. IMAGE COURTESY OF DAVID ZWIRNER.