Who is Yayoi Kusama?
Yayoi Kusama (草間 彌生, Kusama Yayoi, born March 22, 1929) is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, but is also active in painting, performance, film, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut,…
What influenced Yayoi Kusama’s art style?
Raised in Matsumoto, Kusama trained at the Kyoto School of Arts and Crafts in a traditional Japanese painting style called nihonga. Kusama was inspired, however, by American Abstract Impressionism. She moved to New York City in 1958 and was a part of the New York avant-garde scene throughout the 1960s,…
Where to see Yayoi Kusama’s Art in 2021?
In 2021, solo exhibition KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature is held at the New York Botanical Garden. Retrospective exhibition Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective opens at the Gropius Bau, Berlin.
Who is the Japanese artist with the name Kusama?
Kusama proved herself a unique artist amidst the circles of Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg, producing hallucinatory paintings and installations such as Infinity Mirror Room (1965). Despite this initial success, mental health issues led her to return to Japan in the 1970s.
Following a $6.3 million building redevelopment, City Gallery reopens with Mirrored Years, a show by renowned Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama. Born in 1929, Kusama was an epoch-defining figure in the 1960s New York art world, where she vied with Andy Warhol for the status of most publicised artist.
What’s new at the City Gallery Wellington?
New works are added for Wellington, including Dots for Love and Peace, where Kusama transforms the City Gallery’s fifty-two-metre heritage façade with her signature dots—making it pop. Kusama worked from a set of architectural drawings to create her detailed installation plan, specifying the colour, size, and placement of each dot.
What inspired K Kusama’s Infinity Net paintings?
Inspired by vivid childhood hallucinations, she began making her Infinity Net paintings in 1958, covering canvases with fine networks of lines, leaving fields of dots. Kusama describes them ‘as without beginning, end, or centre’.
