These bright LED installations transport you to an alternate universe

Upon entering a room Yayoi Kusama Infinity is like entering a completely different universe. The door closes behind you, and you suddenly find yourself surrounded by what appears to be a galaxy of bright LEDs. The scene is beautiful in a surreal, fairy tale kind of way space age.
But it's also a bit jarring in its intimacy , it's almost as though you have been transported instantaneously from a whitewashed gallery buzz Kusama , obsessive mind .
It's a strange place to live , if only because you get the feeling that what happens in the mind of Kusama is very different from what is happening in , say, your neighbor , or colleague . The Japanese artist has lived in a Japanese mental institution since the 1970s , when she looked after a particularly stressful period in the city of New York.
But Kusama 's struggle with obsessive compulsive disorder and other mental anguish is not a shameful secret . In fact it is the opposite .
Mental problems Kusama feed his work , his obsession and compulsion manifested in its overuse of shapes, colors and mirrored rooms. During the time he has been an artist Kusama (she is now in her mid -80s ) has been obsessed with polka dots. As a result of the hallucinations he's had since childhood , the forms are stuck through his paintings, in their clothes , and are incorporated in their infinite rooms trippy .
It is no exaggeration to say that they are everywhere . Including his show recently opened David Zwirner Gallery in New York City .
In "I have come in the Sky " , Kusama continues the theme with 27 new paintings and two conference infinite, all covered with dots of different shapes and sizes. Colorful large paintings covered the eyes and the points are beautiful works themselves , but the real reason most people will walk to the Chelsea gallery and wait in line 4 hours is seeing bright rooms Kusama infinity of mirrors .
Kusama has been making these magic boxes from the 1960s , when for the first time a small room lined with mirrors and filled with phallic forms of polka dots, creating what I like to imagine a brothel in the Dr. Seuss universe could be similar.
His most recent room , "The souls of millions of light years away " is more along the lines of his " Fireflies in the water, " beloved infinite room mirrors showed hundreds of LEDs - warm tones in the Whitney last year .

These bright LED installations transport you to an alternate universe