The Broad will debut special exhibit

The Infinity Mirrored Room – The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away has been a popular social media attraction for visitors at the Broad Museum. Yayoi Kasuma, the Japanese artist behind the exhibit, will present his new installation, Yayoi Kasuma: Infinity Mirrors, at the museum in Fall 2017. This will be The Broad’s first visiting special exhibition and will feature six infinity rooms. All rooms will showcase Kasuma’s signature psychedelic kaleidoscope alliance of color and light in an immersive environment.

Yayoi Kasuma is an artist who has explored a variety of mediums such as sculpture, painting and environmental art. She has been acclaimed for her special ability to portray abstract landscapes and concepts using her avant-garde style. Her artwork has been widely exhibited in Europe and America during the late 20th century. Kasuma’s fame in the ’60s ballooned through her antiwar activism and her active feminist stance.

Yayoi Kasuma: Infinity Mirrors will expand on the thematic environmental art of transformative light and polka dots. The exhibition will begin with Infinity Mirror Room — Phali’s Field. First unveiled in 1965, the exhibit is a  room that features a dizzying sea of white and red polka-dotted tubers. The polka dots continue in Dots Obsession — Love Transformed into Dots, in which larger-than-life pink and black sculptures encroach the room. Other exhibitions such as Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity, spotlight LED environments such as her current exhibit at the museum.

The new Broad exhibition in Fall 2017, running until 2018, will be an opportunity to explore Yayoi Kasuma’s work that garnered her fame in the 1950s to the present.

“Our Infinity Mirrored Room has become a cultural phenomenon and many of our visitors are extremely passionate about Kusama’s work,” said Joanne Heyler, founding director of The Broad. “The timing is right for an exhibition that contextualizes the infinity rooms and brings Kusama’s contributions to 20th- and 21st-century art into deeper focus. We are thrilled to present this unprecedented special exhibition at The Broad next year that engages seven decades of work by a phenomenal artist.”

The hashtag,   #InfiniteKasuma, marks Kasuma’s most significant tour on the West Coast. Only five museums will showcase the #InfiniteKasuma tour — Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum, Seattle Art Museum, The Broad, Art Gallery of Ontario and Cleveland Museum of Art.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the exhibition will include paintings, works on paper and sculptures from the early ’50s to the present. The exhibit will not be free.

The upcoming exhibition will open in Fall 2017, and it marks a special opportunity to expand Angelenos’ obsession with the Infinity Mirrored Room.