Avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama's matchless creativity and originality have been captivating
the world since she moved from Matsumoto her hometown in Nagano Japan to the USA in 1958. In
the last ten years alone her retrospective exhibitions in four major European and American
museums including Tate Modern London and the Whitney Museum of American Art New York have
seen record attendance. Kusama has continuously innovated and re-invented her style. Well-known
for her repeating dot patterns her art encompasses an astonishing variety of media including
painting drawing sculpture film performance and immersive installation. It ranges from
works on paper featuring intense semi-abstract imagery to soft sculpture known as
'Accumulations' to her 'Infinity Net' paintings made up of carefully repeated arcs of paint
built up into large patterns. This comprehensive publication originally published to accompany
a sell-out exhibition at Matsumoto City Museum of Art offers a comprehensive overview of
Kusama's entire career including works from her youth when she indulged in drawing in order
to escape from her hallucinations paintings made when she was based in New York including
'Infinity Nets' and 'Polka Dots' works from the1980s and 1990s when she participated in the
Venice Biennale and last but not least the ongoing large-scale series 'My Eternal Soul'. The
plates are in chronological order and followed by detailed captions.
