Even saying Yayoi Kusama’s name makes me happy – try it, I swear it will do it for you too. On top of this we now get to see this highly esteemed and innovative artist’s happy, colourful work on display at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art
‘Look Now, See Forever’ is immersed in style, with GOMA being taken over by Kusama’s dramatic sculptures and paintings, as well as film projection and installation. Her brilliant 80 year-old mind has created some of the most significant art in the last hundred years.
Kusama uses colour, pattern, form and space in a most interesting way, challenging the viewer to see the world completely differently. The artist herself sees the world in a different way – she suffers from severe OCD and 'depersonalisation syndrome' since she was a child. It's nicknamed the 'Alice in Wonderland Disease' because, like Alice, it makes the person feel like their body is dissolving, changing or even absent, and they constantly exist in a state where it is impossible to distinguish between reality and imagination. Dots are her major obsession, and art is her therapy.
Yayoi Kusama: Inside the studio. An in-conversation between Ms Yoriko Tsuruta, who has worked closely with the artist for many years, and Suhanya Raffel, Deputy Director, Curatorial and Collection Development.
Kusama: Princess of Polka Dots is a feature documentary work-in-progress about avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama. The paparazzi nicknamed her the Polka Dot Princess in the 1960s when she lived in New York City. At that time, she rivaled Andy Warhol for press attention. Now in her early 80s, Kusama is considered Japan’s greatest living artist.
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