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Last chance to see the varied work of Yayoi Kusama - artist, fashion designer, poet and filmmaker

The living legend of the international avant-garde exhibits her work at the Gagosian Gallery in Rome
Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession TOSIA (2008) and Narcissus Garden (1966/2010) are currently on show at the Gagosian Gallery in Rome, Italy
Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession TOSIA (2008) and Narcissus Garden (1966/2010) are currently on show at the Gagosian Gallery in Rome, Italy


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Gagosian Galllery, Rome, Italy

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From: 25 March 2011
Until: 7 May 2011

Yayoi Kusama

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by appointment only


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The obsessive, avant-garde paintings and sculptures spanning the 60 year career of living legend Yayoi Kusama are on show at the Gagosian Gallery in Rome (ends 7 May).

Famous for her flamboyant use of colour as much as the compulsive repetition she applies to her work, Kusama has produced works from unique masterpieces to mass-produced pop culture commodities.

Alongside recent works such as her Dots Obsession TOSIA (2008) and Passing Winter (2005) is her notorious sculpture, Narcissus Garden (1966/2010). First exhibited as a rogue event at the 33rd Venice Biennale in 1966, and drawing attention to the commercial realities of art, Kusama offered the hundreds of mirrored balls in the installation to passers by for 1200 lira a piece.

Many of Kusama's works are a personal exploration into obsession, meditation and space. Reach Up to the Universe, Dotted Pumpkin (2010) is in the shape of Kusama's favourite pumpkin motif, which she has described as a sort of alter-ego.

The convex mirrors of varying sizes that make up each of her installations are designed to endlessly reflect and multiply each other and the viewers moving between them.


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