Starting July 12th, the Speed Art Museum will have Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrored Room– LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER on exhibition. The immersive artwork will mark the first time that a major Kusama artwork has ever been on view in Kentucky.
An icon of global contemporary art, Yayoi Kusama has eclipsed art historical categorization even as her multifaceted practice has found kinship over the decades with movements such as Minimalism, Pop Art, and Surrealism. Born in Matsumoto City, Japan, in 1929, she studied painting in Kyoto before moving to New York in the late 1950s. Beginning in childhood, the artist was (and continues to be) transfixed and consumed by hallucinations in which the world around her appears to be teeming with repetitive forms. By the mid-1960s, Kusama had become well known in the avant-garde community for her provocative vision, exhibitions, and “happenings.” Since this time, the artist’s remarkable artistic journey has grown to span performance and live events, installation, painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and film, as well as commercial design and fashion. Through Kusama’s artworks, we, too, can enter her dynamic worlds of wonder, mystery, and imagination.
Read more and check it out if you’re in the Louisville area.
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