Yayoi Kusama

Avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama's matchless creativity and originality have been captivating the world since she moved from Matsumoto, her hometown in Nagano, Japan, to the USA in 1958. In the last ten years alone, her retrospective exhibitions in four major European and American museums, including Tate Modern, London, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, have seen record attendance. Kusama has continuously innovated and re-invented her style.Well-known for her repeating dot patterns, her art encompasses an astonishing variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, film, performance and immersive installation. It ranges from works on paper featuring intense semi-abstract imagery, to soft sculpture known as 'Accumulations', to her 'Infinity Net' paintings, made up of carefully repeated arcs of paint built up into large patterns. This comprehensive publication, originally published to accompany a sell-out exhibition at Matsumoto City Museum of Art, offers a comprehensive overview of Kusama's entire career, including works from her youth, when she indulged in drawing in order to escape from her hallucinations; paintings made when she was based in New York, including 'Infinity Nets' and 'Polka Dots works from the1980s and 1990s, when she participated in the Venice Biennale; and last but not least, the ongoing large-scale series 'My Eternal Soul'.The plates are in chronological order and followed by detailed captions.

La autobiorafía de Yayoi Kusama La red infinita retrata, en primera persona, a una mente artística única, atormentada por miedos y obsesiones, pero decidida a alcanzar y mantener su posición al frente de la vanguardia artistica mundial. Pintora inconformista, Kusama canaliza sus neurosis obsesivas en un arte que trasciende las barreras culturales.Una vez llegada desde Japon a Nueva York, vive los primeros tiempos en la pobreza, pero pronto se convierte en la reina de la escena artistica contracultural, y llega a codearse con artistas como Georgia O'Keeffe o Andy Warhol. Kusama brinda un relato conmovedor de su infancia y la primera aparicion de las visiones obsesivas que la han perseguido durante toda su vida. Al regresar a Japon a principios de la decada de 1970, la artista ingresa voluntariamente en un hospital psiquiatrico de Tokio, donde sigue residiendo, y desde donde surge, con un vigor aparentemente inagotable, el flujo interminable de obras de arte que la han convertido en una autentica leyenda. El resultado es un relato fascinante que se extiende durante setenta años de vida. "Al mirar atras, veo que he recorrido un largo camino para llegar hasta aqui. Mi batalla constante con el arte comenzo cuando aun era una niña, pero mi suer