2024-08-15 05:04:48
Yayoi Kusama’s Infinite Accumulation goes on public display in the UK.
As reported by Day.Az with reference to foreign media, Infinite Accumulation is presented near the busiest London underground station Liverpool Street. The project was jointly financed by British Land and the City of London Corporation.
“Commuters and visitors alike are in for a real treat when they arrive at Liverpool Street,” said Justine Simons OBE, Deputy Mayor for Culture and Creative Industries. “The arts are a vital part of London’s success, helping to transform our places and bring our communities together as we build a better London for everyone.”
It is the latest artwork to be installed and commissioned by the Crossrail Art Foundation’s arts programme, supported by Victoria Miro’s London-based Kusama Gallery, for the Elizabeth line, the largest collaborative public art project in a generation. It has been permanently installed at the eastern entrance to the Elizabeth line, which opened to great fanfare in 2022. The work was one of a series of public art commissions to celebrate the new Tube line, including Chantal Joffe’s Sunday Afternoon in Whitechapel at Whitechapel station and Douglas Gordon’s Overheard Underground on Tottenham Court Road.
Speaking about her inspiration for the work, Kusama said: “London is a huge metropolis where people of all cultures are constantly moving. The spheres symbolise unique individuals, and the supporting curved lines allow us to represent the basic social structure.”
For this monumental, site-specific work, Kusama expanded the use of her signature polka dots into interlocking forms that interact with and define the public spaces outside the new entrance to the Elizabeth Line’s Liverpool Street station. These dynamic, serpentine arches were created intuitively by Kusama, hand-twisting wire on original models to create the artwork.
The Infinite Cluster is over 10 metres high and 12 metres wide, covering an area of approximately 100 metres in length. Its glittering silver spheres hover above the ground and are highly polished, reflecting everything around them. This dynamic, highly reflective architectural form, reflecting the viewer and the world around it, signifies the endless accumulation of both individual and collective experience in the changing spaces of London’s urban landscape.
Yayoi Kusama, born in rural Japan in 1929, later became a prominent figure in New York’s highly innovative post-AbEx art scene of the 1960s. Endlessly repeating polka dots were one of her obsessions from childhood, representing the way we are all connected to something universal.
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