Patterns emerge, wherever you look, whether purposeful or accidental, in the ways people have chosen to use their stickers. A personal favourite of mine was people’s tendency for creating faces with little “o” shaped mouths on the mirror (which I added my own to). There are also large arching, swooping rainbows in every room. The rainbows appear to wrap around the entire apartment in a bow when the exhibit is viewed in its entirety from the balcony, becoming the only discernible feature when viewed this way. What forces allowed them to, repeatedly, yet organically, spring up and grow across the entire summer of this project?Īnna Piper-Thompson at the exhibit Maddy Allardyce All the other interior objects in the house are absorbed into the mix of colour, as you are hit by an explosion of colour surrounding you on all sides. The primary joy of this exhibit is how much it invites, and centres on, play. It was primarily designed with children in mind.
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This is a part of the Wikipedia article used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA).But it also indulges a child-like desire in adults to scribble all over the walls, handing back a kind of creative freedom. Her childhood was greatly influenced by the events of the war, and she claims that it was during this period that she began to value notions of personal and creative freedom. Discussing her time in the factory, she says that she spent her adolescence "in closed darkness" although she could always hear the air-raid alerts going off and see American B-29s flying overhead in broad daylight. When Kusama was 13, she was sent to work in a military factory where she was tasked with sewing and fabricating parachutes for the Japanese army, then embroiled in World War II. She was reportedly fascinated by the smooth white stones covering the bed of the river near her family home, which she cites as another of the seminal influences behind her lasting fixation on dots. These hallucinations also included flowers that spoke to Kusama, and patterns in fabric that she stared at coming to life, multiplying, and engulfing or expunging her, a process which she has carried into her artistic career and which she calls "self-obliteration". When she was ten years old, she began to experience vivid hallucinations which she has described as "flashes of light, auras, or dense fields of dots". I didn’t want to have sex with anyone for years The sexual obsession and fear of sex sit side by side in me." When I was a child, my father had lovers and I experienced seeing him. The artist says that her mother would often send her to spy on her father's extramarital affairs, which instilled within her a lifelong contempt for sexuality, particularly the male body and the phallus: "I don’t like sex. Her mother was apparently physically abusive, and Kusama remembers her father as "the type who would play around, who would womanize a lot". Since the 1970s, Kusama has continued to create art, most notably installations in various museums around the world.īorn in 1929 in Matsumoto, Nagano into an affluent family of merchants who owned a plant nursery and seed farm, Kusama started creating art at an early age and began writing poetry at age 18.
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Embracing the rise of the hippie counterculture of the late 1960s, she came to public attention when she organized a series of happenings in which naked participants were painted with brightly colored polka dots. She moved to New York City in 1958 and was a part of the New York avant-garde scene throughout the 1960s, especially in the pop-art movement. Kusama was inspired, however, by American Abstract Impressionism. Raised in Matsumoto, Kusama trained at the Kyoto School of Arts and Crafts in a traditional Japanese painting style called nihonga. She has been acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content.
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.
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