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Large pink inflatable tentacles are part of a retrospective exhibition of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama in Berlin.
More than seven decades of her work is being celebrated, from her signature polka dots to infinity rooms.
Stephanie Rosenthal, curator of show and director of Martin Gropius Bau said, We have almost 250 works in 19 rooms. It is really an exhibition that shows that she both wrote art history and that she is still today one of the most progressive artists.
Kusama became famous in Japan with her paintings before she moved to New York in 1956. She then became a leading figure in the pop art scene.
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Yayoi Kusama’s artistic work owes much to her engagement with the natural world; as a child she would spend hours among the fields of her family’s seed nursery in Matsumoto. In this display at New York Botanical Garden (until 31 October), early works such as her
Narcissus Garden (1966) are installed amid the flowers; there are also two new monumental sculptures,
Dancing Pumpkin and
I Want to Fly to the Universe, and her hallucinatory ‘obliteration greenhouse’,
Flower Obsession (2017). It’s also a great opportunity, were any needed, to take a look at the NYBG’s famous rose garden, the native plant garden, and its Victorian-style greenhouses. Find out more from the NYBG’s website.
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By Helen Cook
New York, Apr 23 (EFE).- The flowers and polka dots that characterize the work of 92-year-old Japanese-born artist Yayoi Kusama have brought color and joy to public spaces in different parts of the world and now are doing the same in New York City, one of the hardest-hit metropolises during the Covid-19 pandemic.
In recent days, Kusama’s almost childish tones and shapes have been decorating the already picturesque New York Botanical Garden, which is located in the Bronx and boasts a wide array of flowers and plants, from tulips, magnolias and daffodils to almond and cherry trees, all of them exquisitely maintained.