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Flowers that bloom at midnight 2011

Artwork Flowers that bloom at midnight this artwork made of Fibreglass-reinforced plastic, urethane paint, metal frame, created in 2011-01-01
Accession No.
2012.097
Date Created
2011
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Contemporary Asian Art
Dimensions A
183 x 307 x 178cm
Media Category
Sculpture
Secondary Media Category
fibreglass
Medium
Fibreglass-reinforced plastic, urethane paint, metal frame
Place Created
Japan
Credit Line
Purchased 2012 with funds from the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Diversity Foundation through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation

Yayoi Kusama’s exuberantly colourful Flowers that bloom at midnight 2011 is an especially large-scale blossom. With its gazing eye, it considers us at our own level, seeming to follow our movement around the space. Size often plays a significant role in fairy tales, be it through transformation, tests of character, moral lessons, or simply quirks of the magic realm. Viewers may well imagine Thumbelina, the fairy-tale girl born of a magic flower, emerging from Kusama’s work, with its polka-dotted petals and highly polished surface of otherworldly pop allure.

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A view of a sculpture that takes the form of a strange flower creature, with a huge red eye and limbs made from leaves.
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Yayoi Kusama: Flowers that bloom at midnight

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ESSAY: Kusama’s pumpkins and flowers

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Exhibitions featuring this object

Feature image: Del Kathryn Barton / Australia b.1972 / Brendan Fletcher b.unknown / The Nightingale and the Rose (still) 2015 / Gift of Del Kathryn Barton through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2022. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program / © Del Kathryn Barton / Image courtesy: The artist and RoslynOxley9 Gallery, Sydney

FAIRY TALES

Dec 2023 - Apr 2024

Works by Yasumasa Morimura, Masami Teraoka and Takashi Murakami installed for ‘We Can Make Another Future’ at GOMA, December 2014 / © The artists / Photograph: M Sherwood, QAGOMA

‘We Can Make Another Future’

Sep 2014 - Sep 2015

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