MUST-SEE: Yayoi Kusama Exhibition at the Tate Modern, London
At the weekend, I headed to the opening of the new Yayoi Kusama exhibition at the Tate Modern in London…and it did not disappoint! Kusama is perhaps Japan’s best-known living artist – famous for her colourful polka dot patterns – and has worked obsessively producing art since the 1940′s.
The exhibition traces the origins of Kusama’s work in the 1950′s (post-World War II) in an impoverished Japan, her move to America and the struggle to adjust, her experiences in the US during the late ’60′s (when the country was in the throes of cultural and sexual liberation) and finally her work of the last thirty years (produced from a mental institution, where she voluntarily admitted herself and where she remains to this day). Read more

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