Yayoi Kusama - Hardcover

YAYOI KUSAMA (ARTISTES CONTEMPORAINS) First Edition, As New Condition

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. Free USPS 1-3 Priority Mail Shipping in USA 48 plus free insurance. Book Condition: As New Jacket Condition: As New, with plastic cover. 297x258x28mm; 240 Pages Yayoi Kusama was born in 1929 in Matsumoto, Japan. Infinity, self-image, sexuality and compulsive repetition are themes that she seizes on from the late 1950s, with the first iterations of her paintings Infinity Nets, large canvases covered with an endless pattern. made up of small dots. These works, which the artist describes as "obsessive", result from the psychological instability from which she suffers. She went to live in New York from 1958 to 1973, where she managed to impose herself on the artistic scene thanks to in tune with the times, between happenings, sexual revolution and demonstrations against the Vietnam War. Between East and West, his works combine psychedelia and American pop culture of the 1960s with invasive repetitive motifs. Her installations are often real performances, where she covers the smallest space with polka dots, phallic protuberances, or an infinite set of mirrors. Yayoi Kusama is considered a one-of-a-kind artist on the contemporary scene and her works are exhibited by the most prestigious museums around the world. In 1993, she represented Japan at the 45th Venice Biennale. In 1998-1999, a major retrospective titled Love Forever. Yayoi Kusama 1958-1968 is shown in the United States and Japan (at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo). In 2012, his work was the subject of a new retrospective at the Tate Modern in London, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Center Pompidou in Paris and the Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York. She has received numerous awards and decorations, such as the Asahi Prize in 2001, the Order of Arts and Letters in 2003, the Praemium Imperiale, painting prize awarded by the Japanese Association of Fine Arts in 2006, and the Order of Cultural Merit. Yayoi Kusama is known worldwide for her avant-garde work on themes such as infinity, self-image, sexuality and repetition. Spotted on the New York art scene of the 1960s, she created works combining psychedelia, pop culture and repetition of motifs, in the form of installations and series of paintings. This new edition of the monograph published in 2000, which remains one of the most exhaustive studies of his work, is enriched with a text by Catherine Taft and a series of new poems by the artist. - Akira Tatehata is a poet and art critic, winner of the 2005 Takami Jun Award for Literature. Laura Hoptman is curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Udo Kultermann, former museum curator and art historian, taught at Washington University in Saint Louis. Catherine Taft is Associate Director of LAXART Los Angeles. In 2016, Kusama was voted one of the hundred most influential people in the world by Time Magazine and by Art Magazine the most internationally appreciated artist, based on the number of visitors to his exhibitions around the world. - Recent exhibitions organized in South Korea, China, Russia, Argentina, France, Spain, England, North America, Norway, Sweden and in Denmark, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, Chile. - A popularity that led her to work for brands such as Coca-Cola, BMW and Louis Vuitton. - In 2017-2018, a major exhibition organized in the United States on the evolution of his Infinity Mirror Rooms, notably at the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Seattle Art Museum, the Broad Museum in Los Angeles, the Art Gallery of Ontario and at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Artikel-Nr. 0115

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