Yayoi Kusama at Tate Modern
Yayoi Kusama’s (b.1929) pioneering work spans over six decades and the artist's exhibition that is now of view at Tate Modern (London, United Kingdom) highlights Kusama's moments of most intense innovation. Kusama is one of Japan's best-known living artists and since the 1940s she has developed an extensive body of work. From her earliest explorations of painting in provincial Japan to new unseen works, the exhibition will reveal a history of successive developments and daring advances, demonstrating why Kusama remains one of the most engaging practitioners today.
Conceived as a series of immersive environments, the exhibition will unfold in a sequence of rooms, each devoted to the emergence of a new artistic stance. Much of Kusama's art has an almost hallucinatory intensity that reflects her unique vision of the world, whether through a teeming accumulation of detail or the dense patterns of nets and polka dots that have become her signature.
She is renowned for her 'environments', large-scale installations of dazzling power that immerse the viewer. A highlight of the exhibition will be a new installation conceived especially for the show, Infinity Mirrored Room-Filled with the Brilliance of Life 2011, Kusama’s largest mirrored room to date.
Date: until June 5.
Location: Tate Modern. Bankside. London SE1 9TG. United Kingdom.
Opening hours: from Sunday to Thursday from 10am to 6pm. Fridays and Saturdays from 10am to 10pm.
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