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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Kelly Burke

Yayoi Kusama exhibition to bring art star’s infinity rooms and polka dots to NGV

Yayoi Kusama inside her infinity mirror room titled The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away at the David Zwirner gallery in New York in 2013
Yayoi Kusama in her infinity mirror room The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away at the David Zwirner gallery in New York in 2013. Australia’s NGV will open an exhibition of the artist’s work in December. Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters

Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese artist who has become an Instagram favourite in her 90s with her fantastical pumpkin sculptures, polka dots and kaleidoscopic infinity rooms, is the subject of a blockbuster retrospective heading to Australia.

In December, the National Gallery of Victoria will present one of its most expansive exhibitions to date, with eight decades of work by Kusama – now 95 years old – on display across the gallery’s entire ground floor.

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