{"id":10362,"date":"2012-05-01T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T07:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/blog\/?p=10362"},"modified":"2017-05-05T13:58:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T17:58:16","slug":"sticky-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zatista.com.au\/blog\/2012\/05\/01\/sticky-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"One Sticky Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last December, Japanese artist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yayoi-kusama.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yayoi Kusama<\/a>\u00a0created one seriously amazing installation at Australia&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/qag.qld.gov.au\/exhibitions\/current\/yayoi_kusama_look_now,_see_forever\" target=\"_blank\">Queensland Gallery of Modern Art<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2012\/01\/yayoi-kusama-obiliteration-room\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Yayoi Kusama 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/obliteration-2-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">image: thisiscolassal.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After constructing a very buttoned up, pristine, white, shining beacon of IKEA-ness, the artist turned thousands of young museum visitors loose on her work with thousands upon thousands of colored stickers. No strings attached.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2012\/01\/yayoi-kusama-obiliteration-room\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Yayoi Kusama 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/obliteration-4-600x399.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">image: thisiscolassal.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Can you imagine the fun?\u00a0The result is nothing short of amazing \u2013 like an outward projection of the inner workings of a child&#8217;s mind itself.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2012\/01\/yayoi-kusama-obiliteration-room\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Yayoi Kusama 3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/obliteration-5-5-600x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">image: thisiscolassal.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The installation, aptly-named &#8220;Obliteration Room&#8221;, proved to be very popular with visitors both young and old before talking on a life of its own on the Internet.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11010\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/art\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/05\/obliteration-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11010\" class=\" wp-image-11010  \" title=\"obliteration-7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/art\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/05\/obliteration-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">image: thisiscolassal.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0&amp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11011\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2012\/01\/yayoi-kusama-obiliteration-room\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11011\" class=\" wp-image-11011\" title=\"obliteration-6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/art\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/05\/obliteration-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">image: thisiscolassal.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The rest of the exhibit was similarly whimsical and brilliant, which really isn&#8217;t much of a surprise given the fact that its creator dresses like this:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qagoma.qld.gov.au\/exhibitions\/past\/2011\/yayoi_kusama_look_now,_see_forever\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Yayoi Kusama 4\" src=\"https:\/\/qagoma.qld.gov.au\/__data\/assets\/image\/0003\/118335\/varieties\/Thumbnail_320.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"499\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Yayoi Kusama \/ Image courtesy: Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Read more about the artist and her work on the QAG website, where you can play <a href=\"https:\/\/qagoma.qld.gov.au\/kids\/games_for_kids\">Kusama&#8217;s World of Dots Kids Interative<\/a> game and also view the <a href=\"https:\/\/interactive.qag.qld.gov.au\/looknowseeforever\/\" target=\"_blank\">online show catalog<\/a>, which is pretty cool on its own.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&amp;<\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin-left: 0;\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"overflow: hidden; list-style: none; margin-top: 10px;\"><a 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