Yayoi Kusama Kinetic Carpet

Yayoi kusama 草間 彌生 kusama yayoi born 22 march 1929 is a japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation but is also active in painting performance film fashion poetry fiction and other arts her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism minimalism surrealism art brut pop art and abstract expressionism and is.

Yayoi kusama kinetic carpet.

Yayoi kusama s narcissus garden has always fascinated me. During the early 60s. Yayoi kusama s remarkable artistic practice has fascinated the public for nearly six decades. The exhibition allowed a person to look into one mirrored ball and see their reflection replicated and distorted 1500 times.

The work was one of kusama s first major performance pieces as she stood in the middle of what she called a kinetic carpet draped in a gold kimono. Narcissus garden inhotim 2009 is a new version of a key sculpture yayoi kusama originally presented in 1966 for her unofficial participation in the 33rd venice biennale. On that occasion on the grass between the pavilions kusama clandestinely installed 1 500 mirrored globes which she sold to passersby for us 2 each. On the front lawn of the 1966 venice biennale the artist laid out a kinetic carpet inclusive of 1500 mirrored balls.

The sign she posted among the spheres reading your narcissism for. Then for 2 usd they could purchase one. Yayoi kusama in her phalli s field infinity room in 1965. Here you can read more about the artworks in the exhibition.