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Yayoi Kusama, Song of a Manhattan Suicide Addict, 2010. © YAYOI KUSAMAThis exhibition presents recent and new works by Yay...
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Yayoi Kusama, Song of a Manhattan Suicide Addict, 2010. © YAYOI KUSAMA
This exhibition presents recent and new works by Yayoi Kusama created over the past ten years with the theme of her diverse visions, consisting of twenty-two works that are shown for the first time in Japan or anywhere in the world. From her latest canvas series, My Eternal Soul, in which she pours the visions overflowing from her inner world, the exhibition showcases the newest of her accomplished one-meter-square paintings.
The exhibition also includes installations that invite visitors to immerse themselves in to experience the works. The presented works include her latest participatory project, FLOWER OBSESSION, in which her hallucinatory vision is realized through an entire room’s surface covered by flowers, as well as an immersive installation created for this exhibition, Infinity Mirrored Room – A Wish for Human Happiness Calling from Beyond the Universe. This exhibition invites you thus to see and experience the present state of Kusama’s visions.
This exhibition introduces the present state of Kusama’s visions, which depict her longing for the universe and the unknown. Yayoi Kusama‘s desire to create artworks remains undiminished to this day, and she continues to devote most of her time to her works even now.
This exhibition presents twenty-two works created by Yayoi Kusama since 2010 that are shown for the first time in Japan or anywhere in the world. Kusama’s method of repetition and accumulation of obsessive visions has been a fundamental part of her practice for more than half a century. To realize her visions of obsession, Kusama keeps challenging herself with new materials and technologies, and this exhibition introduces the latest state of her diverse practice. SOULS OF WOMEN THAT CONTINUE FOREVER, which is created by casting a series of profiles with aluminum, is a relief work created for this exhibition and has never been shown in Japan. Drawn with vividly contrasting colors, these profiles, combined with floating and somewhat humorous shapes, stimulate our imagination, as though they are the souls of women who are omnipresent, or the souls of women who travel through time and space. The bronze cast outdoor sculpture, FLOWERS THAT SPEAK ALL ABOUT MY HEART GIVEN TO THE SKY, which is exhibited in the rooftop gallery on the fifth floor, is also created for this exhibition. Metal materials, such as aluminum and bronze, have become Kusama‘s preferred materials in recent years, due to the artist’s earnest desire to preserve her works forever by using more durable materials. In Song of a Manhattan Suicide Addict, which is shown in the gallery on the second floor, Kusama sings a poem about her hallucinatory experiences with the psychedelic images of her works in the background, reflecting eternally in opposing mirrors as a video installation work. Kusama’s artistic method of placing multiple mirrors facing one another has been used repeatedly since the artist’s first mirror room work in 1965, and with this work she evolves this technique in the new realm of video installation.
Experience Kusama’s vision through walk-in immersive installations and a participatory project.
Yayoi Kusama, Song of a Manhattan Suicide Addict, 2010. © YAYOI KUSAMA
This exhibition presents recent and new works by Yayoi Kusama created over the past ten years with the theme of her diverse visions, consisting of twenty-two works that are shown for the first time in Japan or anywhere in the world. From her latest canvas series, My Eternal Soul, in which she pours the visions overflowing from her inner world, the exhibition showcases the newest of her accomplished one-meter-square paintings.
The exhibition also includes installations that invite visitors to immerse themselves in to experience the works. The presented works include her latest participatory project, FLOWER OBSESSION, in which her hallucinatory vision is realized through an entire room’s surface covered by flowers, as well as an immersive installation created for this exhibition, Infinity Mirrored Room – A Wish for Human Happiness Calling from Beyond the Universe. This exhibition invites you thus to see and experience the present state of Kusama’s visions.
This exhibition introduces the present state of Kusama’s visions, which depict her longing for the universe and the unknown. Yayoi Kusama‘s desire to create artworks remains undiminished to this day, and she continues to devote most of her time to her works even now.
This exhibition presents twenty-two works created by Yayoi Kusama since 2010 that are shown for the first time in Japan or anywhere in the world. Kusama’s method of repetition and accumulation of obsessive visions has been a fundamental part of her practice for more than half a century. To realize her visions of obsession, Kusama keeps challenging herself with new materials and technologies, and this exhibition introduces the latest state of her diverse practice. SOULS OF WOMEN THAT CONTINUE FOREVER, which is created by casting a series of profiles with aluminum, is a relief work created for this exhibition and has never been shown in Japan. Drawn with vividly contrasting colors, these profiles, combined with floating and somewhat humorous shapes, stimulate our imagination, as though they are the souls of women who are omnipresent, or the souls of women who travel through time and space. The bronze cast outdoor sculpture, FLOWERS THAT SPEAK ALL ABOUT MY HEART GIVEN TO THE SKY, which is exhibited in the rooftop gallery on the fifth floor, is also created for this exhibition. Metal materials, such as aluminum and bronze, have become Kusama‘s preferred materials in recent years, due to the artist’s earnest desire to preserve her works forever by using more durable materials. In Song of a Manhattan Suicide Addict, which is shown in the gallery on the second floor, Kusama sings a poem about her hallucinatory experiences with the psychedelic images of her works in the background, reflecting eternally in opposing mirrors as a video installation work. Kusama’s artistic method of placing multiple mirrors facing one another has been used repeatedly since the artist’s first mirror room work in 1965, and with this work she evolves this technique in the new realm of video installation.
Experience Kusama’s vision through walk-in immersive installations and a participatory project.
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THE VISION OF FANTASY THAT WE HAVE NEVER SEEN IS THIS SPLENDOR
Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo
July 30, 2020 – March 29, 2021
Yayoi Kusama Museum is pleased to present an exhibition, THE VISION OF FANTASY THAT WE HAVE NEVER SEEN IS THIS SPLENDOR, starting from July 30.
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