Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years

24 February - 8 June 2009

“ebullient, alternately sexy and innocent”
– New York Times

"Kusama's profoundly zany work is equal parts Freud, Dr Seuss and Timothy Leary"- TimeOut Sydney

"The most enchanting, exquisite, want-to-stay-lost-here space in Sydney"- Daily Addict

Discover the work of internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama with this major exhibition that spans decades of her artistic practice.

Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years demonstrates the enduring force of Yayoi Kusama. Renowned early installations such as Infinity Mirror Room – Phalli’s Field (1965) along with recent immersive environments including Fireflies on the Water (2000) and Clouds (2008) provide insight into the creative energy of this extraordinary artist and her lifelong preoccupation with the perceptual, visual and physical worlds.

Working across different media and forms that include painting, collage, sculpture, installation and film, as well as performance and its documentation, Kusama creates works that reveal a fixation with repetition, pattern and accumulation. Describing herself as an “obsessive artist”, her work is intensely sensual, infused with
autobiographical, psychological and sexual content.

For a panoramic view of the Infinity Mirror Room-Phalli's Field (or Floor Show) 1965 MCA installation click here

To visit Yayoi Kusama's website please click here.

Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years Exhibition Education Kit

Organised by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Curated by Jaap Guldemond (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen), Franck Gautherot and Seungduk Kim (Le Consortium in Dijon, France).

Presented in association with City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand.

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