Yayoi Kusama: Get to the point

The Japanese Yayoi Kusama is one of the really great artists of our time, among other things because her art reaches all people in the world across all ethnic groups and cultures.

Also achieved in the actual sense - hardly an artist was present at more exhibitions to the most remote corners of the world from 1945 until today; Every art fan whose art world has more to offer than Leonardo da Vinci , Rembrandt and the artists who organized riot in the media last week knows the Japanese artist and her work.

Why Yayoi Kusama is still not a art star and never wanted to become one, but the art as a survival strategy needs as well as art needs its ideas for revitalization is said in the article "Yayoi Kusama: a world of art" .

Now it is about Kusama's work that has a few scope for an artist who turned 89 on March 22, 2018 and worked continuously for her life:

Kusama and dots and New York and hippie time: fits well

After a more than unpleasant youth and a not much less unpleasant early days than an artist, Kusama took the first opportunity in the early 1950s to break down from Japan (her parents) to the USA. After a short stop (already with an exhibition) in Seattle, she finally reached the capital of art in 1958 and was ready to conquer it. What she succeeded, even in a very short time:

Yayoi Kusama lived mainly in New York , and during this time her most famous works of art, actions and happings were created.

At first not exactly in the saus and brour, as a young immigrant without financial support in New York survival is not a sugar licking for less tender, naeted natures. Kusama lived more badly than right from the sale of her pictures (she is said to have become known in the New York art scene because she went to gallery on foot from gallery to ask for exhibition and sales space), but she lived from her pictures- for a person with her mind and in her intellectual constitution, probably more important than the expensive trend on the plate and the trendy brand on the shoe.

However, the art world for women is a very brittle “soul savior” or with frustration you should be able to handle as a artist well. Because talented artists find enough expert people in all art centers who credibly assess the talent and also help notorious doubts to finally believe in their skills and art; But the financial success is nevertheless failed to do so and is often used by less talented men.

For someone who is constantly working on the threshold of his load limit, certainly not a super favorable situation, which is why Yayoi Kusama once again took psychiatric treatment in her New York time in 1961.

The work continued, in 1961 Kusama opened as an artistic means of expression in 1961 . Furniture and other household items were fully covered with phallus -like clothes that were so soft that they could not hurt anything or anyone.

"Accumulation No. 1" is from 1961 and (UA together with works by Andy Warhol ) was exhibited in the Green Gallery in 1962: Mo.ma/2jb7jav

"Accumulation No. 2" is from 1962, including artists in the picture: bit.ly/2jkqus5

There are still a few penis posaments with artists in the middle of it: Mo.Ma/2xha5hk , in the foreground the sculpture "Traveling Life" from 1964. This leader is overgrown by phallic forms that are climbed on every step of women's shoes. This is usually interpreted as a symbolic representation of the arduous career in an art scene dominated by men, but could also express completely different thoughts.

From the middle of the 1960s photographic phase followed , often with plenty of exposed artist, e.g. B. naked and painted with points - certainly not a bad means to make your work better known. From there, the step towards Happings, events and performances was not far. In any case, they were absolutely trend and for Kusama a means to go to the boundaries between art, humans and the environment:

"Narcissus Garden" from 1966, bit.ly/2LFM1LM , is simply beautiful with its 1500 mirrors Nden Kugeln and also brought the artist the opportunity to achieve international awareness with a not -minded campaign: After her work was not selected for the Biennale in Venice, although both popularity and quality had been selected, Kusama "built Narcissus" Garden ” in front of the exhibition hall and sold the balls individually to passers -by.

Anyone who was successful at the "Narcisium for Sale" with 1200 lire (around 200 euros) at the time before the police ended the campaign (Kusama was already the best -known artist of this Biennale) should be lucky today.

This was followed by Happenings in New York, Kusama on the sidewalk in the middle of white pillows with red dots (14th Street Happening) and Kusama in a pink Kimono and a sculpture -decorated umbrella on a walk through New York (Walking Piece) , both from 1966.

In 1967, Kusama preferred to paint on other people (naked and in public) with points in the "Bodypainting Events" or practiced in "Self-Obliteration" to watch here in the film in 1967 at the Brooklyn Bridge, with really deep-relaxed horses, frogs, cats, men and a little art porn if you hold through to the end: bit.ly/2jkvruz .

The fact that most of these events were dissolved by the police does not need to be mentioned (or especially, for the apolitical part of our youth, so that they know what blooms if they don't wake up soon).

From the end of the 1960s, as for many others, the time had come for Kusama to "get stuck thoughtfully": she takes over and tested ideas from the hippie movement from anarchism to nudism , from pacifism to free love .

At the beginning of the 1970s, she also tested capitalism , with the establishment of several companies, in addition to "Kusama Fashion" also the non -youth -free magazine "Kusamas Orgy" . The artist soul gave the rest of the rest, in the early 1970s Kusama decided to return to her homeland Japan.

At home it is not calmer everywhere

In Japan, Kusama did not move close to her parents in the well -tempered small town of Matsumoto, but into the bubbling Tokyo, she was finally used to life in a metropolis from New York.

However, Tokyo has around 1.5 million more inhabitants than New York then, the metropolitan region is even inhabited by about twice as many people (37.5 to 20 million). The capital in the familiar home therefore soon turned out to be an unsuitable environment for its exhausted nerve costume, which is why Yayoi Kusama in 1977 withdrew in the calm, protected ambience of a nerve clinic at the gates of the city.

From there, she has been pursuing her daily art work in a neighboring studio, apparently a good constellation for artists who can best work in stimulus surroundings.

Because with the work made there, it should become even more famous, all over the world, here are some examples:

1998, wall paintings in Oriente Metro Lisbon, Portugal: bit.ly/2kga0du

Anyone who gets close to this subway station: Be sure to plan and look at the time, this subway station was designed on the occasion of the world exhibition and is a single art exhibition.

In 2012, Kusama shows with "Obliteration Rooms" that the extension is also more colorful, in the following video the origin:

In 2009 there are silver balls in Brazil: bit.ly/2lsnftc

Yayoi Kusama reached in 2015 at shining points, "The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away" : N.PR/2KJE6QR

In 2015 she will be celebrated as the most famous artist in the world because of these shining points in the press: Huffpost .

Yayoi Kusama - Victoria Miro London Exhibiton (Infinity Mirrors)

Exhibition career

The most famous artist in the world is not only through work in seclusion, Yayoi Kusama can also look back on a breathtaking exhibition history :

In 187 solo exhibitions, the art of Yayoi Kusama has been seen so far, from 1995 5 to 15 solo exhibitions in various corners of the world were exclusively equipped with the artist's works.

Group exhibitions were almost 700, already the list of Biennals and Triennals (when are quadronal and quintonals come?) Incorrect awe:

• 1993 Biennale di Venezia
• 1998 Taipei Bienniale
• 2000 12th Biennale of Sydney
• 2001 Yokohama International Triennale of Contemporary Art
• 2002 Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
• 2003 7e Biennale de Lyon + Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2003
• 2004 Whitney Biennial
• 2005 Biennale di Venezia
• 2006 Singapore Biennale
• 2007 International Incheon Women Artist's Biennale
• 2008 Liverpool Biennial + Biennale Arts Le Havre
• 2010 Aichi Triennale + 17th Biennale of Sydney
• 2012 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2012 + Arsenale = Ukrainian Biennale of Contemporary Art
• 2015 Arzuid Biennale Amsterdam
• 2016 Setouchi Triennale
• 2017 Socle du Monde Biennale

In 2006, Yayoi Kusama was awarded the Praemium Imperial ('Nobel Prize of the Arts') in the painting division.

Since 2009, Yayoi Kusama has been a Bunka Kōrōsha , a person with special cultural merits, one of 832 special people who have been selected in a country with 126 million inhabitants across all sciences, arts and professions in almost 70 years for this award.

Autumn 2017 the artist opened her own museum in Tokyo. It is operated by a foundation that is intended to ensure that her work is preserved after her death of mankind instead of being eaten by the money sharks of the art world. Better eats, yayoi kusama are currently in demand than ever.

What else could become of it

Yayoi Kusama makes art that likes internationally - according to Yasuaki Ishizaka (former boss Sotheby's Japan), Kusama is one of the first Japanese or perhaps even the only Japanese woman who has a large international fan base in Asia, Europe and the USA.

Therefore, she can stimulate new trends all over the world, e.g. B. in the German apartment or in German design.

Polka dots in quantities are really blatant.

And they undoubtedly put you in a good mood, especially when it comes to anarchist and innovative points as Yayoi Kusama uses.

Yayoi Kusama "Obliteration Rooms" is available in many, many figures, and all of these "describable rooms" were bright white when the first museum visitors entered. Now not everyone likes the funny "ball bath look" , but the community work can also be realized with other design ideas and can be expanded well at all: today everyone groans when the painting of a room is in front of it.

Imagine a company that the film, brush, colorful wall color in the package with a funny invitation to friends, to the painting party, sells-or, if not enough friends, arranges artistically gifted students. Our apartments would become more beautiful, whether with a wall in colorful, all walls in very tender streaks or a wide variety of birds as white-in-white patterns on the ceiling ...

tothotornot.com : You can see with children, but also with children (small, made of paper).

What Yayoi Kusama actually demanded or warned with her point cosmen: DavidzwirnerBooks.com/product/yayoi-kusama-give-me-love , we were also at a good time again ...

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Lina cream

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