Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusamais a Japanese artist and writer. Throughout her career she has worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, collage, scat sculpture, performance art, and environmental installations, most of which exhibit her thematic interest in psychedelic colors, repetition and pattern. A precursor of the pop art, minimalist and feminist art movements, Kusama influenced contemporaries such as Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg. Although largely forgotten after departing the New York art scene in the early 1970s, Kusama is now...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth22 March 1929
CountryJapan
I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.
I want to become more famous, even more famous.
I believe that eyes are very important motifs. Thats something that can discern the peace and love.
I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.
More and more I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it’s important that I share the love and peace,
I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.
I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.
If it were not for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago,
The thought of continually eating something like macaroni, spat out by machinery, fills me with fear and revulsion, so I make macaroni sculptures. I make them and make them and then keep on making them, until I bury myself in the process. I call this 'obliteration.'
I am just another dot in the world
Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots we become part of the unity of our environments.
With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing philosophy of the universe through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call stereotypical repetition.