<b>Qilu Evening News Qilu one-point reporter Zhao Shifeng</b>
This year's No. 9 typhoon "Ruby" made landfall in Kagoshima, Japan, on the evening of the 8th, moving all the way to the northeast and reaching the Seto Inland Sea on the 9th. With the arrival of this typhoon, an unexpected thing happened: Yayoi Kusama's work "Pumpkin", a world-famous artist based on the naoshima sea in the Seto Inland Sea, was severely damaged by the wind blowing into the sea.
According to Kyodo News Agency, belaughter Holdings, which owns the work, is a reinforced plastic material in the shape of a yellow pumpkin, 2 meters high and 2.5 meters in diameter, which was set at the end of the embankment in 1994. According to reports, around 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on the 9th, affected by strong winds and huge waves, the metal utensils that fixed the works fell off and fell into the sea. The "pumpkin" hit the embankment, cracked into three pieces, and was washed ashore, where it was recovered and stored in a nearby company-related facility around noon that day.
Born in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, Yayoi Kusama moved to New York in 1956 and became famous in the United States as a world-renowned avant-garde artist and writer whose artworks are known as the "Queen of Dots" for their works of art known as the "Queen of Dots".
This yellow pumpkin sculpture at Naoshima Pier, created by Yayoi Kusama after returning to Japan from New York, was her first outdoor pumpkin series installation and the largest pumpkin sculpture in the world at the time, becoming the symbol of Naoshima and appearing widely in various travel books and sightseeing brochures.
In addition, next to the Naoshima Port Visitor Center, there is another red pumpkin work, one red and one yellow two pumpkins have become the mascot of Naoshima, is a place where tourists must take photos and punch cards, usually two pumpkins are always lined up in front of the people waiting for a photo.
Yayoi Kusama's works are of great value in the world art market. As early as the 1980s, her pumpkin works sold for 10 million yen, and at an auction in October 2015, one of her "pumpkin" works ended up selling for 800 million yen (nearly 47 million yuan). Moreover, the value of his works is still rising. As Kusama's first outdoor pumpkin sculpture, the "pumpkin" that was blown into the sea this time is worth at least millions of dollars, according to expert estimates.
It is reported that according to the scale of the typhoon, the relevant departments have also taken measures to withdraw in advance. Belesheng Holdings said: "This storm exceeded expectations. We'll see if we can fix it in the future. ”
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