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Yayoi Kusama Interview: Earth is a Polka Dot

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Interview with Japan’s legendary artist, who has been painting polka dots ever since she started as an artist. In this video she talks about one of her works, a light installation depicting her cosmic vision.

Yayoi Kusama (b 1929) is the most important contemporary artist living in Japan today. In this video she talks about her life, how her parents were against her becoming an artist and how she decided to go to New York because she wanted to compete with the best artists. She also describes her working process and how she is always surprised by the result.

Interview by Christian Lund, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, London, February 2011.

Interview filmed by: Matthias Pilz.
Kusama's installation filmed by Martin Kogi.
Translation: Nami Yamamoto
Produced by: Martin Kogi and Christian Lund
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Supported by Nordea-fonden.
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Oct 30, 2018 · 34 points, 7 comments · submitted by brudgers
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I had the pleasure of seeing Yayoi Kusama’s work at the Tate Modern when I visited London in 2011. Her work really left an impact on me.

Aesthetically, her art is hard to define and almost alien. Yet I felt a strange emotional depth to it. There is a kaleidoscope of emotions in her work, and I think that is what really spoke to me.

siruncledrew
The Hirshhorn had her Infinity Mirrors exhibition on display recently: https://hirshhorn.si.edu/kusama/

It was amazing, and well worth getting the chance to see.

If you're near Atlanta check it out: https://www.high.org/exhibition/yayoi-kusama-infinity-mirror...

robin_reala
There was an interesting article in The Guardian recently about several exhibitions specifically of fake Kusama works in China: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/29/yayoi-kusama-r...
jamesfmilne
There is an exhibition of her work on at the Victoria Miro gallery in Islington, London at the moment. It's currently sold out but apparently they'll be releasing some more tickets:

"THE MOVING MOMENT WHEN I WENT TO THE UNIVERSE" https://www.victoria-miro.com/exhibitions/528/

ggm
In qagoma (Brisbane) the kids room was a technicolor sea of dots floor to ceiling. A most impressive community art engagement. She's one of the most popular artists to have a retrospective shown here. (The Asia Pacific Triannual shows her work too I think)
GaryNumanVevo
The first art installation is a permanent one in the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. I got a chance to visit it when I was traveling over there last summer, absolutely surreal experience as you're surrounded by an infinite plane of pulsing colorful dots in all directions. After a few minutes, you reopen the door into the basement of the museum and you start to wonder where the hell you're mind wandered off to.
raywu
I was just there today! For those that want to see it:

https://instagram.com/p/BpnL2Y1AtlR/

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