Yayoi Kusama Infinite mirror art installation goes on sale for £350,000

Yayoi Kusama Infinite mirror art installation goes on sale for £350,000

Approach the strange-looking mirrored hexagonal block, peek through the small window… and it’s like looking into a psychedelic Tardis.

The scene – a thousand tiny, diamond-like mirrors that seem to go on forever – is actually a dazzling artwork by Yayoi Kusama.And the famous piece, ‘Infinity Mirror Room – Love Forever’, has now gone up for sale for £350,000 by Christie’s London.It is being auctioned next Friday, along with two other impressive works by the eccentric Japanese artist.

A Yayoi Kusama work titled: Infinity Mirror Room – Love Forever is expected to sell for £250,000 to £350,000 at Christie’s Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 11 October 2012.

Disco ball: The piece of art, pictured, is one of three Yayoi Kusama’s works being sold by Christie’s London

Smoke and mirrors: Yayoi Kusama’s work titled: Infinity Mirror Room-Love Forever, pictured, is on sale for between £250,000 and £350,000

Smoke and mirrors: Yayoi Kusama’s work titled: Infinity Mirror Room-Love Forever, pictured, is on sale for between £250,000 and £350,000

The amazing installation – confined to a silver hexagon-shaped ‘room’ – creates a hypnotic effect

Perspective: The amazing work, pictured, is constructed with mirrors giving the viewer the impression of a never ending perspective

Colours: Each window in the ‘mirror room’ pictured, depicts a different colour

Expensive: The item, pictured, will set its new owner back up to £350,000

Top dollar: Christie’s New York sold a work by the 83-year-old artist for more than £3.1 million in 2008

The bedazzling box gives the viewer the impression of a never-ending perspective as they gaze inside its small windows at the shapes and colours reflecting before them.

The amazing installation – confined to a silver hexagon-shaped ‘room’ – creates a hypnotic effect that looks far more impressive than its simple fairground mechanics, and its minuscule glittering mirrors, metal and light bulbs, that shine from green to red to gold, confuse one’s sense of space

The artwork, which was completed in 1994, was last exhibited in London at Victoria Miro Gallery in 2008.

In 2010, it was displayed at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Netherlands. It is being sold along with an acrylic on canvas painting titled ‘Infinity’ which is asking between £30,000 and £40,000 and a felt and acrylic marker on paperboard piece titled Early Spring, which has no guide price.

And while the £350,000 sale price may sound a bit steep for such an abstract creation as a ‘Mirror room’, Ms Kusama’s work has performed strongly at auction before.

In November 2008, Christie’s New York sold a work by the 83-year-old woman for more than £3.1million, a record for a living female artist.

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