AGO Crowdfunding Concludes with Infinity Mirror Acquisition

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Yayoi Kusama, "Infinity Mirrored Room - Let's Survive Forever," © YAYOI KUSAMA

Courtesy David Zwirner, New York; Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore/Shanghai; Victoria Miro, London/Venice. (photo by Maris Hutchinson / EPW Studio)

The Art Gallery of Ontario has concluded a crowdfunding campaign to acquire Canada’s first Infinity Mirror Room by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.

Thanks to over 4,700 #InfinityAGO donors and the David Yuile and Mary Elizabeth Hodgson Fund, Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room - Let's Survive Forever, will be bought by the gallery.

It is still under construction and will arrive in Toronto in spring 2019. 

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Yayoi Kusama with recent works in Tokyo, 2016

Courtesy of the artist © Yayoi Kusama, Photo by Tomoaki Makino

The work features mirrored orbs suspended from the ceiling and arranged on the ground.

Donations ranged from $1 to $25,000, with the majority between $25 and $100.

Before the campaign began, the gallery secured $1 million towards the purchase and the campaign raised an additional $651,183. The gallery reached back into the Hodgson Fund – which is dedicated to art acquisitions – to complete the campaign.

Source: Art Gallery of Ontario