![]() ![]() Sometimes painting is not enough so she’s never shied away from a multidisciplinary approach, keeping polka dots and accumulation as recurrent themes. I wonder if Kusama knows about this but either way, she’s fighting her own uphill battle too. ![]() ![]() She likes to use red polka dots on a white background which reminds me of the King of the Mountain jersey that cyclists fight for in the Tour de France, going through the most gruelling fit of endurance. What’s on the walls almost dwarfs the monumental flower sculptures, and these are big! This room definitely made me feel very small.įloating Pumpkins at Ginza 6, Tokyo, Japan 2 meter x 2 meter) filling each of the large four walls. The opening room is stacked from floor to ceiling with 132 canvases (approx. With no distinction between her as an artist and the product of her art, this is the intensity we can’t help but feel striking us all.Ĭase in point at her Tokyo retrospective. Plagued with hallucinations since she was a young girl, the only way she can resist suicide and survive is by producing her all-encompassing art. Yayoi Kusama is a self-declared obsessional artist. Throw in that she is officially diagnosed with obsessive compulsive neurosis and checked herself in the Seiwa Hospital for the Mentally Ill back in 1977, producing her art from there ever since and your admiration should grow many folds. Quite a feat for an 88-year old Japanese artist, wouldn’t you say? Yayoi Kusama rightly deserves to be a national phenomenon in Japan but it’s the same story wherever she exhibits. She’s got a pop-up exhibition at stylish Ginza 6 shopping mall and her retrospective My Eternal Soul at Tokyo National Art Center has been packed since February. © 2017 Ingrid Westlakeįreshly back from my trip to Japan, I visited the island of Naoshima where ferries, buses and cycling helmets are all branded with cheerful Kusama polka dots. ![]()
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