Avant-garde sculptor, painter and novelist Yayoi Kusama continues her dots obsession by applying a new makeup on the Philip Johnson's Glass House located in New Canaan, Connecticut. Kusama's installation called 'Dots Obsession – Alive, Seeking for Eternal Hope', one of three installations at the site, will be on view for a limited time - September 1-26, where Kusama will create an “infinity room” experience with the Glass House itself covered with polka dots.

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Visitors who attend the exhibition during this period will be offered the unique experience to simultaneously see the world through the eyes of both Philip Johnson and Yayoi Kusama.  The Glass House’s window walls and doors allow the artist to create a one-of-a-kind signature “infinity room.” 

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The polka dots directly engage the architecture of the Glass House, complementing its structure and aesthetics, breathing new life into the house.  For Kusama, the polka dot represents an individual, its own universe. Similarly, Philip Johnson created his own private universe at the Glass House, sculpting every aspect of landscape experience into his own universe.

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''My desire is to measure and to make order of the infinite, unbounded universe from my own position within it, with polka dots. – In exploring this, the single dot is my own life, and I am a single particle amongst billions. – I work with the principal themes of infinity, self-image, and compulsive repetition in objects and forms, such as the steel spheres of Narcissus Garden and the mirrored walls I have created,'' said Yayoi Kusama.

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Image © Matthew Placek

Image © Matthew Placek

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