YAYOI KUSAMA

Yayoi Kusama is one of the most famous artists living and working today with a prolific oeuvre spanning over painting, film, sculpture, poetry, installation and performance. As a pioneering figure of the New York avant-garde scene in the 1960s, Kusama’s work is rooted in a range of influences from Minimalism, Surrealism and Art Brut to pop art and Abstract Expressionism. Some key themes in her practice include feminism, sexuality, obsession, psychology and vibrant, psychedelic patterns. She is best known for her repetitive polka dot motif, covering entire paintings and sculptures in the iconic spots, reflected in her wellknown Dots Obsession series (1997 to present). She is also known for her large-scale immersive installations, that envelope the viewer in Kusama’s unique and entrancing visual world, a famous example being Fireflies on Water (2002).

Kusama’s artworks can be found in prestigious international museum collections, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and the Tate Gallery, London among others. A museum dedicated specifically to the artist’s oeuvre opened in Tokyo in 2017, where she now lives and works. Kusama remains one of the most significant contemporary artists today, whose iconic pictorial language and trailblazing oeuvre has come to establish itself as its own genre within the contemporary art world. “With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved”.

YAYOI KUSAMA

PUMPKIN, 1992

Screenprint on Paper 72 x 61 cm

Edition of 120