As part of the 10th anniversary of its inauguration and to commemorate the 110th anniversary of architect Philip Johnson’s birth, the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, will install two famed works by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama — a “Pumpkin” sculpture and “Narcissus Garden” — in its grounds. The display will run through November 30, with a new installation by the artist, “Infinity Rooms,” joining them all of September.Created in 1966 for the 33rd Venice Biennale, this new interpretation of “Narcissus Garden” will be part of the Glass House’s 49-acre landscape, where it will share space with one of Kusama’s giant “Pumpkin” sculptures, made in 2015.The Glass House, designed by and for American architect Philip Johnson, is a signature minimalist home where for the first time glass and steel were used as design elements. By adding some of Kusama’s signature elements, organizers see the exhibition as offering “the unique experience to simultaneously see the world through the eyes of both Philip Johnson and Yayoi Kusama.”“Narcissus Garden” features 1,300 spheres, originally plastic but now made of steel, which reflect the house and its surroundings, moving in the wind to turn the entire Glass House site into a gigantic kinetic sculpture. One of Kusama’s most enduring works, this edition of the “Narcissus Garden” follows similar installations in Regent’s Canal in London, the Gagosian Gallery in Rome, and the Tuileries Gardens in Paris.Opening in September is another reinterpretation of a Kusama classic as the Glass House itself becomes one of Kusama’s “Infinity Rooms,” with the house being covered in the polka dots that are the artist’s most recognizable pattern for the installation “Dots Obsession — Alive, Seeking for Eternal Hope.”“Yayoi Kusama: Narcissus Garden at the Glass House” runs through November 1, at the Glass House, Connecticut, with “Dots Obsession — Alive, Seeking for Eternal Hope” running September 1-26
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