Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years

Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years
27 September 2009- 7 February 2010
Principal Sponsor Ernst & Young

“I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.” Yayoi Kusama

Kusama’s work, idiosyncratic and consistently original, has positioned her as one of the most acclaimed and respected contemporary artists working today. She has worked across a range of disciplines including painting, sculpture, video, music, fashion, dance, performance and film.

A radical and epoch-defining figure in the New York art world of the 1960s, Yayoi Kusama vied with Andy Warhol for the position of the most publicised artist of the era. Kusama became an iconoclast, a mover and shaker in the American counter-culture, organising public happenings as well as making influential work in a period when significant changes and innovations were taking place in art.

In 1973 Kusama returned to Japan, where she continues to play a prominent role in the international art-world. Her work has been highly influential to a new generation of artists and designers.

Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years presents seminal works from the 1960s and 1970s alongside more recent work. Kusama is renowned for her lifelong interest in visual perception and sensory experiences, her fixation with repetitive patterns and forms, her iconic use of dots and her dizzying installations. Mixing Op Art, Pop Art and sculptural practice, her all-enveloping room-installations, mirrored to infinity, are hallucinatory, surrealistic, and utterly unlike anything else you will experience in the world of art.

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