Last month, artist Yayoi Kusama turned an ordinary room in the Queensland Art Gallery into a giant canvas by painting everything white. Then, over the course of a couple weeks, children who visited the museum were given colored dot stickers and encouraged to transform the space into what you see in the photos below. The Obliteration Room is part of Kusama’s Look Now, See Forever exhibition that runs through March 12 at the Queensland Art Gallery in Australia. (via thisiscolossal.com)
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Awesome!
posted by JOHN THE THIRD on 1-3-2012 at 5:21 pm
That’s just too cool. :)
posted by e-Expeditions on 1-3-2012 at 5:42 pm
Genius, pure genius
posted by Michael Fusion on 1-3-2012 at 7:12 pm
AWESOME! SIMPLY AWESOME!
posted by chris on 1-3-2012 at 7:49 pm
Seems a bit odd to me – we had a similar installation at our art gallery (Welington, NZ) – could have been the same artist -and I was informed that the artist was very particular with where each spot was placed. Did she change her style while touring….?
posted by Logan on 1-3-2012 at 8:11 pm
How did stickers end up on the ceiling? Those are some tall kids! Yikes… very colorful, it assalted my eyballs/
posted by Thatoneguy on 1-3-2012 at 9:16 pm
If you let your eyes go out of focus, you can see Elvis.
posted by Chris on 1-3-2012 at 9:19 pm
Would be fun to see a time lapse video!
posted by Andy on 1-3-2012 at 9:30 pm
Suddenly I want a slice of Wonder Bread.
posted by Jim in Va Beach on 1-4-2012 at 9:31 am
SO fun! I like the time laps video idea.
posted by Jes on 1-4-2012 at 11:43 am
@Jim in VA Beach- HA! or play Twister!
posted by dianeygirl on 1-4-2012 at 12:38 pm
@dianeygirl Yes, that, too!
posted by Jim in Va Beach on 1-4-2012 at 2:58 pm
@chris. that is not elvis, but a kid playing the piano….
posted by josh on 1-5-2012 at 12:00 am
I did that when I was a kid and wound up getting in trouble for it.
Of course, instead of stickers I was using white shoe polish.
posted by Chuckie on 1-5-2012 at 3:25 am
Marvelous! I love it.
posted by Francie on 1-10-2012 at 11:39 pm
So, let me get this stratight. Thousands of kids were given stickers to slap all over a room painted completely white, and this is genius art? Got it.
posted by Mike on 1-16-2012 at 1:35 pm