PRINTCatalogue Note:
In the forms of paintings, sculptures and performance art, Kusama peers into surreal “psychology” and expresses the universe of her mind. Her highly contrastive color schemes returns traces of visual art, music and fashion during the psychedelic period. Her significance is perhaps attributable to her “icon” status, and her explicit yet soulful manifestation.
Kusama Yayoi once explained, “This is how I let the shock and fear I am almost succumbed by settle and abate; these experiences are why I started painting.” This autobiographical and spiritually reflective approach to drawing was developed through coincidence and unforeseen motives linked to a mysterious world and to a power that comes from within - subconscious thoughts that unfurl a universe of vastness. Her endless passion for creation, and her almost religious reverence toward art, are what have supported her through her battle against mental illness. She utilizes a great number of round dots to cover the surfaces of all sorts of objects: walls, floors, canvases, items, human figures, and even herself. Through repeating lines, her dots trail off into infinity, disorienting the viewer in their spatial reality, pulling them unwittingly into a trance state where they do not know if they are present in reality or illusion.
In this work, “Petals in the Early Summer”, the artist used yellow, green and blue to create a burst of vitality. These wayward dots of varying shapes converge into walls of pulsing waves, like the fragmented petals blowing along the winds; like the vitality brought along the beautiful Summer: like the vigor of the artist herself. The first critic to appreciate Kusama Yayoi’s “Infinity Net”, Donald Judd, once assessed her work as such: “the effect [of Kusama’s Infinity Net] is both complex and simple.” As viewing her works, those polka dots waived the mental sufferance which rooted in her mind and Yayoi transformed these hallucination which she sees constantly onto the canvas , creating a world which is attracting the viewers and through her dreamy-like inner landscape, she creates some of the most mesmerizing art works which gains the attention worldwidely. Petals in Early Summer in Japanese, and dated 1988 This work is to be sold with a registration card issued by Yayoi Kusama Studio.
Kusama Yayoi once explained, “This is how I let the shock and fear I am almost succumbed by settle and abate; these experiences are why I started painting.” This autobiographical and spiritually reflective approach to drawing was developed through coincidence and unforeseen motives linked to a mysterious world and to a power that comes from within - subconscious thoughts that unfurl a universe of vastness. Her endless passion for creation, and her almost religious reverence toward art, are what have supported her through her battle against mental illness. She utilizes a great number of round dots to cover the surfaces of all sorts of objects: walls, floors, canvases, items, human figures, and even herself. Through repeating lines, her dots trail off into infinity, disorienting the viewer in their spatial reality, pulling them unwittingly into a trance state where they do not know if they are present in reality or illusion.
In this work, “Petals in the Early Summer”, the artist used yellow, green and blue to create a burst of vitality. These wayward dots of varying shapes converge into walls of pulsing waves, like the fragmented petals blowing along the winds; like the vitality brought along the beautiful Summer: like the vigor of the artist herself. The first critic to appreciate Kusama Yayoi’s “Infinity Net”, Donald Judd, once assessed her work as such: “the effect [of Kusama’s Infinity Net] is both complex and simple.” As viewing her works, those polka dots waived the mental sufferance which rooted in her mind and Yayoi transformed these hallucination which she sees constantly onto the canvas , creating a world which is attracting the viewers and through her dreamy-like inner landscape, she creates some of the most mesmerizing art works which gains the attention worldwidely. Petals in Early Summer in Japanese, and dated 1988 This work is to be sold with a registration card issued by Yayoi Kusama Studio.