Infinity Mirror Room 1965

Created in 1965 for an exhibition at the de castellane gallery in new york i infinity mirror room phalli s field or floor show i marked a major turning point in kusama s practice.

Infinity mirror room 1965.

Kusama s infinity mirror room a large scale mirrored installation was part of her solo exhibition floor show which opened at the castellane gallery new york in november 1965. Using mirrors she transformed the intense repetition of her earlier paintings and works on paper into a perceptual experience. The work kusama s first infinity mirror room finished in 1965 and re created in 2016 places the viewer in a grove of crimson spotted tuber forms reflected in surrounding mirrors an alice in. From louisiana museum of modern art yayoi kusama infinity mirror room phalli s field floor show 1965.

Almost a half century after yayoi kusama first exhibited her landmark installation infinity mirror room phalli s field 1965 in new york the work remains challenging and unclassifiable. Infinity mirror rooms yayoi kusama had a breakthrough in 1965 when she produced infinity mirror room phalli s field. Mirrors gave her the opportunity to create infinite planes in her installations and she would continue to use them in later. In yayoi kusama installations from that time included infinity mirror room phalli s field 1965 a mirrored room whose floors were covered with hundreds of stuffed phalli that had been painted with red dots.