BOOK:Yayoi Kusama-Festival of Life,David Zwirner Books
The monograph “Yayoi Kusama: Festival of Life” documents the artist’s exhibition at David Zwirner’s Chelsea location in New York in late 2017, featuring a selection of paintings from her iconic “My Eternal Soul” series, new large-scale flower sculptures, a polka-dotted environment, and two “Infinity Mirror Rooms”. The monograph includes new scholarship on the artist by Jenni Sorkin, as well as a special foldout poster. In a unique style that is both sensory and utopian, Yayoi Kusama’s work possesses a highly personal character, yet one that has connected profoundly with large audiences around the globe. Throughout her career she has been able to break down traditional barriers between work, artist, and spectator. Kusama’s work, which spans paintings, performances, room-size presentations, sculptural installations, literary works, films, fashion, design, and interventions within existing architectural structures, has transcended some of the most important art movements of the second half of the 20th Century, including pop art and minimalism. Conveying extraordinary vitality and passion, her work seems to encompass an autobiographic, even confessional dimension.-Dimitris Lempesis
