Place Vendôme, Paris
October 2019
October 14–October 21, 2019
Yayoi Kusama has conceived a major new public work by for Place Vendôme, Paris, as part of FIAC Hors les Murs, 2019. Co-presented by Victoria Miro, Ota Fine Arts, and David Zwirner, Life of the Pumpkin Recites, All About the Biggest Love for the People (2019) is installed near the Vendôme Column. The work expands on several of the most recognizable motifs of Kusama’s visual language—the pumpkin, the polka dot and the inflatable—and is the artist’s largest inflatable sculpture to date.
Due to high winds in Paris this week, Yayoi Kusama's Life of the Pumpkin Recites, All About the Biggest Love for the People, 2019, presented as part of FIAC Hors les Murs 2019, has had to be taken down from Place Vendôme. FIAC, Victoria Miro, Ota Fine Arts and David Zwirner thank all those who visited the work. We are also grateful to the City of Paris for enabling the presentation as well as to Mirabaud, sponsor of FIAC Hors les Murs Place Vendôme, and CSIG for their generous support of this project.