Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusamais a Japanese artist and writer. Throughout her career she has worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, collage, scat sculpture, performance art, and environmental installations, most of which exhibit her thematic interest in psychedelic colors, repetition and pattern. A precursor of the pop art, minimalist and feminist art movements, Kusama influenced contemporaries such as Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg. Although largely forgotten after departing the New York art scene in the early 1970s, Kusama is now...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth22 March 1929
CountryJapan
A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colourful, senseless and unknowing. Polka-dots can't stay alone; like the communicative life of people, two or three polka-dots become movement... Polka-dots are a way to infinity.
My life is a dot lost among thousands of other dots.
Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots we become part of the unity of our environments.
I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.