Triennial - FLOWER ROOM

Yayoi Kusama - Flower room

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is one of the most famous living artists in the world. Yayoi has said that she always wanted to be an artist. 

Today she lives in a hospital in Tokyo and visits her art studio every day. For more than sixty years, Yayoi has covered the surfaces of her artworks with lots of tiny dots. 

This began when she was a little girl and saw red flowers from a tablecloth expand to cover every surface in the room. For most of her life, Yayoi has experienced visions of seeing the world through a screen of dots. She calls this process ‘obliteration’, which means the complete destruction of every trace of something.

Yayoi Kusama invites you to take a single red flower and find a special spot in the house to help obliterate all the surfaces in this room with flowers.

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WHERE
NGV International - Melbourne

WHEN
UNTIL 15 APR
Open 10am–5pm daily

COST
General entry is free

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NGV INTERNATIONAL180 ST KILDA ROAD, MELBOURNE