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Yayoi Kusama
Tate Modern | 9 February - 5 June 2012
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Yayoi Kusama, The Passing Winter (detail) 2005Image 1 of 3 | © Tate. Presented by the Asia Pacific Acquisitions Committee 2008. Photo: Tate Photography
Yayoi Kusama, Lingering Dream, 1949Image 2 of 3 | © Yayoi Kusama and © Yayoi Kusama Studios Inc.
Yayoi Kusama, The Clouds, 1984Image 3 of 3 | Copyright of Yayoi Kusama, (c) ANZAI Courtesy of Victoria Miro Gallery / Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo / Yayoi Kusama Studio Inc. Photograph courtesy of: Mr. Shigeo Anzai
Overview
Yayoi Kusama, The Passing Winter (detail) 2005Image 1 of 3 | © Tate. Presented by the Asia Pacific Acquisitions Committee 2008. Photo: Tate PhotographyYayoi Kusama, Lingering Dream, 1949Image 2 of 3 | © Yayoi Kusama and © Yayoi Kusama Studios Inc.Yayoi Kusama, The Clouds, 1984Image 3 of 3 | Copyright of Yayoi Kusama, (c) ANZAI Courtesy of Victoria Miro Gallery / Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo / Yayoi Kusama Studio Inc. Photograph courtesy of: Mr. Shigeo AnzaiJapanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s trademark is polka dots – lots of them, repeated in endless variations in paintings, film, immersive installations, soft sculptures and performance.
Kusama, now in her eighties, has described herself as obsessive, and her work is directly inspired by her hallucinatory visions. While she is in some ways an ‘outsider’, who chooses to live in a psychiatric institution, she is also Japan’s leading contemporary artist.
This, the first large exhibition of her work in the UK, is bound to be a riot of colour and pattern.
Tate video introducing Yayoi Kusama
What the critics say
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"Almost nothing has been immune from Kusama's dottiness: horses and cats, buses and houses, trees and fields and rivers, she has camouflaged them all. Damien Hirst's outsourced efforts look decidedly spotty by comparison." Tim Adams - The Guardian
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"Endlessly repeated semicircular brushstrokes are covered in veils of thinner paint, creating a weblike effect which extends Pollock's idea of the "all over" composition, with the sense that we are seeing just a fragment of a potentially endless work ... The final room, one of her infinity light installations, with changing coloured light bulbs mirrored into endless space is undeniably magical" Mark Hudson - The Telegraph
Venue information & entry details
Entry details
50% off with National Art Pass- £5 (standard entry charge is £10)
Opening times
Open Sunday - Thursday from 10am until 6pm (last entry 5.15pm)
Friday and Saturday from 10am until 10pm (last entry 9.15pm)
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