Jakarta goes crazy for Yayoi Kusama's polka dots and infinity mirrored rooms

Yayoi’s My Eternal Soul is to date the largest painting series she has embarked upon, where she combines figurative and abstract forms.

A lot of people say that art lovers are slightly dotty. And entering Life Is The Heart Of A Rainbow an exhibition by wildly popular Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, which opened at at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum Macan) in Jakarta last month, you’ll see that these people may indeed be right. Quite literally.

Turn to almost any corner of this spacious gallery (2,500sq m gives you enough room to stretch), and it’s all dots, dots and more dots as far as the eye can see. Whether covering huge installations that lunge out of the museum’s ceiling, or spread out on the canvas of a colourful painting on a wall, it’s not difficult to spot the brightly coloured spots of the quirky exhibits that make up this show.