Celebrating Women’s Month
Artist 3 Yayoi Kusama Mirror/Infinity rooms
Yayoi Kusama 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 infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content. The polka dots become a trademark of her work. The vast fields of polka dots, or "infinity nets", as she called them, were taken directly from her hallucinations. .
“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, colorful, senseless and unknowing. Polka-dots become movement ... Polka dots are a way to infinity.” —Yayoi Kusuma, in Manhattan Suicide Addict
Her artwork I choose are her infinity rooms which with the clever use of mirrors create endless spaces. What I adore about Kusama is her hallucinations which could be seen as her greatest flaw is what makes her so special and for me that re-enforces that you must always be yourself. It’s what the world needs.
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