The most comprehensive survey of Yayoi Kusama’s work ever to be brought to Australia will include childhood sketchbooks and the famed immersive mirror rooms.
You’ll be familiar with the polka dots. Scattered over outsized pumpkins, crowding the walls of hallucinatory mirrored rooms, or splashed across Louis Vuitton bags, this playful motif is as synonymous to Yayoi Kusama as the soup can is to Andy Warhol. At a new exhibition opening in summer at the NGV, these dots will take over the entire ground floor of the gallery, in the most comprehensive survey of Kusama’s work ever to be brought to Australia.
This approach has allowed the curators to bring together rarities like gestural, brush and ink paintings from Kusama’s early career in Japan, a series of avant-garde portraits of famous women like Marilyn Monroe and Mata Hari from the 1970s, and a collection of wearable art from her little known clothing line, seen in its entirety.
In spite of her outsider status as both a woman and an immigrant in New York’s art scene, Kusama became central to what curator and Yayoi Kusama exhibition catalogue-contributor Marie Laurberg calls “an explosion of artistic creativity.” “Kusama’s art is very expressive,” she continues. “I see her as an expressionist pop artist because a lot of pop art is very surface-oriented – it’s interested in consumer products, in market culture. Kusama’s art always comes from her own imagination, but she is a pop artist in that she disseminates her work in a very pop-like way.“It was in the 1960s, Laurberg says, that Kusama began to develop her philosophy of infinity by way of repetitive pattern.
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