Brussels goes Dotty for art

An art installation of several giant pink balls with black dots scattered all over them has gone down a storm in Brussels.

Legendary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has illustrated her well-known fascination with dots by launching her exhibition, Dots Obsession, at the Wiels centre.

The collection of inflatable balloons are big enough for visitors to walk inside them and were inspired by a childhood experience Kusama had in which she says she felt submerged by a proliferation of black spots.

Kusama was once part of the avant-garde scene in the 60s which also boasted celebrated pop art icon Andy Warhol.

The 78-year-old admitted herself to a psychiatric hospital in Tokyo in 1977 and never left.

The exhibition is designed to create an uneasy feeling of disorientation and vertigo. But it seems the intention was lost on one young visitor on a school trip who said it reminded him of football: "It looks like the black dots are the goals and you kick the ball in."

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