New Paintings and Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama, Installation View , via Victoria Miro Gallery

Currently on view at Victoria Miro Gallery is New Paintings and Sculptures by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. The works on display reveal the artist’s preoccupation with the infinite and the sublime through giant sculptures of colorful tulips, dogs, a doll, a pumpkin and self-portraits. Kusama employs repetitive and playful patterns, a technique the artist has used since her earliest works dating back to the 1950s. Incorporating pop aesthetics within surreal renditions of everyday natural environment, the works recreate a dream-like landscape. Victoria Miro presents the artist’s surreal and imaginative creations. Located inside and outside the gallery, they set forth an altered and otherworldly reality to be determined by the spectator.

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New Paintings and Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama, Installation View , via Victoria Miro Gallery

New Paintings and Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama, Installation View , via Victoria Miro Gallery

Recognized as one of Japan’s greatest living artists, now over 80 years old, Kusama has suffered from mental illness since childhood and has used this experience as a basis for much of her work. The artist has lived in Seiwa Hospital for the Mentally Ill in Toyko since 1977. Every morning she awakes and leaves the hospital to go to her studio where she works obsessively on repetitively patterned paintings and sculptures.

New Paintings and Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama , via Victoria Miro Gallery

New Paintings and Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama , Outdoor Installation View, via Victoria Miro Gallery

New Paintings and Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama , via Victoria Miro Gallery

New Paintings and Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama , via Victoria Miro Gallery

– R.A. Proctor

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