For a long time, I've been trying to figure out the direction classical art is taking. Since paintings aren't that popular anymore, a shift must have taken placed after it phased out of Pop Art during the 1960s.
Yesterday I found the answer: Yayoi Kusama, arguably the most famous artist in Japan right now. For decades she's been using immersion to invite the viewer into her works. Her exhibits feature large rooms with mirrors that the viewer can put themselves in, almost as if they were stepping into a painting just by being there. When seen from afar, the viewer looks as if they are smack dab in the center of an abstract painting. I can only imagine how fantastic of an experience this must be for the viewer. Her Infinity Mirrors must be unlike anything ever experienced in the world of art.
I believe this is the future of art because it transcends the past, a past in which in the viewer was limited to looking at pieces from a distance. Art immersion is like virtual reality in a sense, only the sets around you are real, not digitally created (although I could also see digital representations being used as a branch of this movement). The feeling one gets when experiencing Kusama's work is also futuristic, in the way that its cosmic vastness puts the viewer in touch with the infinite.
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