P.E.A.R.: Yayoi Kusama at Tate Modern

12 May 2012

Yayoi Kusama at Tate Modern

The Yayoi Kusama exhibition at Tate Britain closes on the 5 June and is worth seeing for the final mirrored room alone. 'Infinity Mirrored Room - Filled with the Brilliance of Life' is, as the title suggests, inescapably joyous. A narrow pathway leads the viewer through a reflected forest of coloured lights. Although the lights go on forever the installation hints at the mortality of the viewer, its beauty unmarred by our sense of entrapment.

The exhibition plays with the dichotomy of exteriority and interiority. Kusama's film of her early art world happenings, during which she exuberantly covered everything in sight with spots, leading to orgiastic scenes of pulsating polka dots, contrasts with the recent interiority of her psychiatric seclusion and her immersive environments, which are at once joyous in their detail and suffocating in their whole.

images: Yayoi Kusama

'Infinity Mirrored Room - Filled with the Brilliance of Life', 2011

photo credit: Lucy Dawkins/Tate Photography

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P.E.A.R. is sold in some very nice bookshops.

In London you can try Foyles on Charing Cross Road, Artwords Bookshop on Rivington Street, The AA Bookshop, RIBA Bookshop and Walther Koenig Books at the Serpentine.

In Manchester you can find us at the RIBA Hub and at Corner House and in Glasgow we are sold at the Aye-Aye Book Depot.

In Berlin P.E.A.R. is sold at Buchhandlung Walther Koenig and PRO qm, and in Lisbon we are available at Tema. In Amsterdam you can find us in Athenaeum Boekhandel.

P.E.A.R. is also sold in the bookshop at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and we are available in other cities across Europe and in far-flung destinations including Taipai, Australia and New Zealand.

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