Yayoi Kusama: I Who Have Arrived In Heaven

Hi all, so Joanna and I visited the David Zwirner gallery in hopes of visiting the Infinity Room but because of time we weren’t able to. But we were able to visit the other parts of the gallery that displayed some of her paintings. Her paintings are all very colorful and portray abstract images:
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To give a background of her works: her main interest is in the cosmic realms and she focuses on pop art and minimalism. This would explain the abstract images in her paintings, which are all drawn in different directions and colors. We were wondering why she was drawing in all different directions and at first hypothesized that since the canvas she drew on was quite big (I believe at least 6 feet), she might have painted like this for convenience, but after doing a bit more research, this may have been her original intention. According to a biography, her works focus microscopic and macroscopic universes; I wonder what she was thinking while painting these? Was this her perception on different “universes” and “cosmic realms?” We also noted that for the third picture, the yellow paint looks like different pathways; did each of the different circles represent different cultures or people that she encountered throughout her life? Or perhaps different places, etc. There was a lot going on through my mind, mainly because I did not really understand the meaning behind the paintings.
Some of her pictures also showed signs of depth and dimension, as shown in the last picture. The eyes are spaced closer together as you move towards the center and left. A lot of the paintings made me think of optical illusions; especially since there was definitely a repetition of the eyes and circular looking faces in most of her paintings.
We also got to visit the Tentacle Room.
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She also explores many aspects of form, space, and content. Since this room had mirrors all around, it  made me feel as if I was like in another world

Definetely recommend to check this place out

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  1. Susan Pak

    wow! This is so cool! This reminded of of the lava lamps and I thought that they were related some how. They make me feel relaxed and the colors that were used made me think of them as lava lamps. I wonder if they used a similar theme. Thank you for this! I can’t wait to visit!

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