L’universo di Yayoi Kusama, dal Giappone al Canada

18 Marzo 2018

Classe 1929, la più carismatica artista della scena contemporanea giapponese è protagonista all'AGO – Art Gallery of Ontario con oltre novanta opere, comprese le sue celeberrime installazioni immersive. Aperta fino al 27 maggio prossimo, la retrospettiva "Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors" è arricchita da Narcissus Garden, un intervento nel quale 1.300 sfere specchianti, realizzate in acciaio inossidabile, sono sparse nello spazio espositivo.

Yayoi Kusama con alcuni recenti lavori a Tokyo, 2016. Courtesy of the artist © Yayoi Kusama. Photo by Tomoaki Makino
Yayoi Kusama, Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity, 2009. Collection of the artist. Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore; Victoria Miro, London; David Zwirner, New York. © Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrored Room – The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, 2013, installation view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Courtesy of David Zwirner, N.Y. © Yayoi Kusama. Photo by Cathy Carver
Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirror Room — Phalli’s Field, 1965. Installation view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2017. Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore; Victoria Miro, London; David Zwirner, New York © Yayoi Kusama. Photo by Cathy Carver
Yayoi Kusama, The Obliteration Room, 2002 to present. Collaboration between Yayoi Kusama and Queensland Art Gallery. Commissioned Queensland Art Gallery, Australia. Gift of the artist through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation 2012. Collection: Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia © Yayoi Kusama. Photograph: QAGOMA Photography
Yayoi Kusama, All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, 2016, installation view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Collection of the artist. Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo / Singapore and Victoria Miro, London. © Yayoi Kusama. Photo by Cathy Carver
Yayoi Kusama, Life (Repetitive Vision), 1998. Installation view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2017. Courtesy of David Zwirner, New York; Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore; Victoria Miro, London. © Yayoi Kusama. Photo by Cathy Carver
Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrors, exhibition view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2017. Left to right: Living on the Yellow Land, 2015; My Adolescence in Bloom, 2014; Welcoming the Joyful Season, 2014; Surrounded by Heartbeats, 2014; Unfolding Buds, 2015; Story After Death, 2014. Photo by Cathy Carver
Yayoi Kusama, Selected works from My Eternal Soul, 2009-present, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2017. © Yayoi Kusama. Photo by Cathy Carver.
Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession –Love Transformed Into Dots, 2007, installation view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore; Victoria Miro, London; David Zwirner, New York. © Yayoi Kusama. Photo by Cathy Carver
Yayoi Kusama, Interior view of peep-in mirror dome from Dots Obsession –Love Transformed into Dots, 2007, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2017. Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore; Victoria Miro, London; David Zwirner, New York., © Yayoi Kusama. Photo by Cathy Carver
Yayoi Kusama, Installation view of Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrorsat the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2017. Left to right: Infinity Mirrored Room –Love Forever, 1966/2014; Accumulation of Stardust, 2001. © Yayoi Kusama. Photo by Cathy Carver