Yayoi Kusama, All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, 2016. Installation view, Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 2017. Photo by Cathy Carver. © YAYOI KUSAMA
Both sensory and utopian, Yayoi Kusama’s (b. 1929) work possesses a highly personal character, one that has connected profoundly with large audiences around the globe. Alluding at once to microscopic and macroscopic universes, her works merge concepts of flatness and depth, presence and absence, and beauty and the sublime.
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Yayoi Kusama at around the age of ten, c. 1939. © YAYOI KUSAMA
“Pumpkins have been a great comfort to me since my childhood; they speak to me of the joy of living. They are humble and amusing at the same time, and I have and always will celebrate them in my art.” —Yayoi Kusama
Installation view, Yayoi Kusama: Dots Obsession - Alive, Seeking for Eternal Hope, The Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut, 2016. Photo by Greg Smith. © YAYOI KUSAMA
“I love pumpkins because of their humorous form, warm feeling, and a human-like quality and form. My desire to create works of pumpkins still continues. I have enthusiasm as if I were still a child.” —Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama, RED GOD, 2015 (detail). © YAYOI KUSAMA
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