Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's work "Pumpkin" will be exhibited at the 4th Shanghai Ciie Expo, with a value of more than one million US dollars of "big pumpkin", red plus wave point, simple to the extreme, like it at first glance, unforgettable at first sight.
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I think this is the unique artistic charm of Kusama Yayoi.
I officially got to know Kusama's work in 2013.
Yayoi Kusama – "One of My Dreams" Asian Touring Exhibition
On December 14 of that year, Yayoi Kusama' "One Of My Dreams" Asian Touring Exhibition was fully presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai.
The exhibition is Kusama's first large-scale solo exhibition in China, with more than 100 works, comprehensively and diversely presenting the artist's amazing creative context over the past 60 years, from the early "Infinite Net" series to the most well-known polka dot pattern works and large-scale installations made of new materials.
In 2013, Yayoi Kusama was 84 years old, but her work was still avant-garde.
The repetitive patterns, combined with the color, easily narrow the distance between the viewer and the work, and her desire for love and peace elevates the exhibition to the realm of thought.
In the exhibition, the endless dots, stripes and their brilliance make me sometimes have the illusion of returning to my childhood, and occasionally the confusion of vertigo.
However, these "repetitions", for the artist, are a bridge to communicate with the world.
I remember that during the exhibition, the famous journalist Cao Jingxing also made a wonderful speech.
After that, reading The Strange Stories of Yayoi Kusama naturally became my follow-up lesson.
Cao Jingxing
It is understood that Kusama Yayoi was born in Japan in 1929, suffering from neurological audio-visual impairment at an early age, and the disease made the world she saw seem to be separated by a patchy web.
She was interested in the dots, spots, and Yayoi Kusama in her life as signals from the universe and nature, so she began to draw them.
In 1957, Yayoi Kusama went to the United States, and the American artist Joseph Cornell added romance to Kusama's life until the death of Joseph Cornell in 1972.
The death of his lover severely frustrated Kusama's spirit.
In 1973, Yayoi Kusama returned to Tokyo from New York and lived alone in a spiritual sanatorium.
Due to the influence of mental illness, Kusama Yayoi extended extremely repetitive paintings to the field of sculpture and installation art, which actually led the trend of pop art.
One critic said, "She is an intuitively sensory artist, and the persistence of her mental symptoms supports the identity of her creative language." ”
"Decades of life in a spiritual sanatorium, pumpkins are like mental stabilizers, becoming her new cure."
"Yayoi Kusama's works are full of dots, and the pumpkin series has become a classic."
Now, according to time calculations, Kusama Yayoi is 93 years old.
For a long time, people have had their own interpretations of her artwork.
And I think that this "polka dot strange mother-in-law" uses unique art to fight against the disease unremittingly, which is really brave and strong.