Yayoi Kusama Returns to New York

David Zwirner galleries in New York present Festival of Life, a major exhibition of new and recent work by celebrated Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, fresh off her blockbuster showing in D.C .


While no gourds or pumpkins are featured, plenty of the artist’s other signatures are, most notably two Infinity Mirror Rooms. One of them invites viewers to look inside through a peephole, while the other is experienced from within, where stainless steel balls create the illusion of infinity through endless reflections.

The exhibit also showcases a sculptural installation from Kusama’s 2011 Tulip series, presented for the first time in the U.S. The oversized potted flowers are made using fiberglass-reinforced plastic and painted with the same red polka dots as the floor, ceiling and walls, creating an all-enveloping sensory experience while diminishing a sense of depth.

In the third space, large-scale paintings from the artist’s My Eternal Soul series have been arranged in a grid on all four walls, centered around new steel sculptures of colorful flowers. A concurrent exhibition has also opened at the gallery’s East 69th Street location, where Infinity Nets paintings from her 1950s series will also be on view.

Festival of Light (525 & 333 W. 19th Street), Infinity Nets (34 E. 69th Street), November 2 – December 16, 2017

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