London gets dottier still with the unveiling of Yayoi Kusama’s sprawling new sculpture at Liverpool Street station (Infinite Accumulation), which is billed as the Japanese artist’s largest permanent public work of art. This feat of engineering, on show outside the entrance to the Elizabeth Line at the east London station, was commissioned as part of The Crossrail Art Foundation’s public art programme for the Elizabeth line. The mammoth 100-metre long piece was co-funded by British Land and the City of London Corporation—just so you know.
The head-spinning bendy work “demonstrates Kusama’s signature use of massed repetitive polka dots which first emerged in her work in the 1960s”, says a project statement. In this latest work Kusama (arguably) takes the dot form further, expanding the motif into linked forms that fill the public space outside the UK's busiest station. The artist says in a statement: “London is a massive metropolis with people of all cultures moving constantly. The spheres symbolise unique personalities while the supporting curvilinear lines allow us to imagine an underpinning social structure.”
