Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama is recognized as one of Japans best-known, most versatile, and internationally successful artists. In the mid-60s her work was mentioned in the same breath as Minimal Art, monochrome painting, and the new trends in Europe, and she was also seen as a forerunner of Pop Art. To this day the artist herself rejects categorization. Her comment is, Kusama is just Kusama, nothing else. Noted for her soft sculptures and psychedelic installations, Kusama explores themes of love, infinity, and obsession throughout her work, from her net-like pattern paintings begun in 1959, to her Pop-inspired love happenings in the 1960s, to installations in which every surface has been compulsively covered in polka-dots, mirrors, or stuffed phallus-like protrusions..Grässlin, Karola is the author of 'Yayoi Kusama', published 2004 under ISBN 9783883757971 and ISBN 3883757977.