![]() ![]() While today's, gay-rights campaigners and anti-capitalist demonstrators are perhaps unlikely to see Kusama as a worthy precursor, a careful reading of her history proves that, for a few years, the artist certainly worked towards similar ends - while taking her polka dots far beyond the gallery system. She turned to clothing design, tried writing novels, and eventually left New York for Japan in 1973, checking into a Tokyo mental health institution, where the artist currently resides. “Kusama called her performances during this period ‘social demonstrations’” writes Kultermann, “but their thin veneer of progressive political rhetoric did not disguise the fact that the true agenda was Kusama’s ‘symbolic philosophy with polka dots’.”Īs the artist’s notoriety declined, so Kusama’s tactics changed. She employed painting, sculpture, performance art, and installations in a variety of styles, including Pop art and Minimalism. These events had the tenor and trappings of sincere political protests, yet not everyone is convinced of the artist’s motives. Yayoi Kusama, (born March 22, 1929, Matsumoto, Japan), Japanese artist who was a self-described obsessional artist, known for her extensive use of polka dots and for her infinity installations. ![]() Indeed, the Japanese artist, who was born today, 22 March, in 1929. Kusama's Body Festival at Central Park's Alice in Wonderland Statue, New York, 1968. In her Stock Exchange stunt, a kind of poppy precursor to 2011’s Occupy movement, Kusama called on passersby to “obliterate Wall Street men with polka dots”, while in one of her anti-war communiqués, she offered the president-elect Richard Nixon, veiled promises of sexual intercourse in exchange for withdrawing US troops from Vietnam. Kusama, whose sculptures and paintings have been exhibited in the leading museums of contemporary art in Europe and the United States, has designed the costumes for the Homosexual Wedding. Presented by the artist, Ota Fine Arts and Victoria Miro 2015, accessioned 2019 1) She turned to. Kusama's Anatomic Explosion outside the New York Stock Exchange, 1968. Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrored Room - Filled with the Brilliance of Life 2011/2017 / Tate.
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