Yayoi Kusama

08.02.2002 - 28.04.2002

Kunsthalle Wien, Wien / Österreich

Mit ihren obsessiven Objekten, Installationen und Environments sorgt Yayoi Kusama - eine der vielseitigsten und international erfolgreichsten zeitgenössischen Künstlerinnen Japans - seit den sechziger Jahren für Furore. Aus unendlichen Netzstrukturen, Punkten und Tupfen schafft sie bereits in frühen Malereien und Zeichnungen ein sich ausweitendes, pulsierendes visuelles Universum.

With her obsessive objects, installations, and environments, Yayoi Kusama, one of the most versatile and internationally most successful contemporary artists from Japan, -has won much attention since the 1960s.... Kusama’s universe is made up from dots and infinite meshwork structures, which characteristically proliferate from watercolors, drawings, and paintings onto objects and entire rooms. Neighboring on Pop Art, Minimalism, and Abstract Expressionism, Kusama has developed an oeuvre which is strongly informed by political and feminist issues as well as by mystical ideas and which she prefers to refer to as ‘obsessional art’. (Information, Kunsthalle Wien Pressetext)