"All things in the universe wait for me again,
I want you to see my fighting figure".
-Yayoi Kusama
▸ Yayoi Kusama (Yayoi Kusama)
Someone asked: "It's difficult to live in the world of art, right?"
Yayoi Kusama: "After I became famous, with money, everything It becomes simple. "
This is an interview with Yayoi Kusama. She is blunt and straightforward, but the simple words "fame" and "rich" can inevitably make people wonder. Isn't this the height of our ordinary people? How come the world-renowned female artists also have such a "unpretentious" pursuit?
So her life is actually chasing fame and wealth? Not so, because the artist's " fame" and "rich" may be different from what we imagine...
▸ Kusama Yayoi works
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She was born in a rich family at , but her cheating father and grumpy mother made her childhood Kusama feel depressed. She even had auditory hallucinations and visions since she was a child. She used painting for self-healing, but she was rejected by her mother. She believed that her daughter should become a “rich girl who collects art” rather than an artist who cannot eat food.
▸ Kusama Yayoi works
. Unfortunately, Kusama did the opposite. She saw the work of American female painter Georgia O’Keeffe . At first sight, she secretly wrote to O’Keeffe for help: "Although I am in In the distance, although I have just started on the road of art, I still ask you to show me the way..."
▸ 1953 "Stars (FUS)"
▸ 1953 "Game No. 5 (Universe)"
z16 ▸ 1953 In "Mountain"
she spent 8 years persuading her mother to go to the United States. For her, Japan is a country too small and humble, with strong feudal thoughts, and its contempt for women can be seen everywhere. And her art needs more freedom and a wider world. The struggle between
and his mother can also be said to be the beginning of the life struggle of Kusama .
▸2002-present "Deleting the Painted House"
The scandal queen of New York?
On November 28, 1957, Yayoi Kusama took 60 kimonos and 2000 paintings to the United States.
The life when she first arrived in New York is different from what she expected . She originally wanted to make a living by painting, but when she arrived in the United States, as the dollar ran out, she fell into the poverty of : In the cold studio, she picked up a broken door and used it as a bed, because there was no money. Buying ingredients, she picks up fish heads and rotten vegetable leaves from the garbage dump on the street to make hot soup. As her mother said, when she arrived in the United States, she couldn't afford to eat and was not well-known.
She once went to the exhibition with the picture shown below on her back. After being rejected, she walked back to her residence alone with it on her back. Under tremendous pressure, the auditory hallucinations and hallucinations of her youth reappeared. She repeatedly put down her paintbrush and called the mental hospital for help.
▸ In 1965, "The Infinite Web" 152x132cm
spent 18 months and of the poor life, this famous "Infinite Web" finally had the opportunity to be exhibited at the Burata Gallery in New York, causing a sensation. Her artistic career finally really started.
The "Unlimited Nets" series she created, about more than ten , including large and small sizes. During that period, she could draw 40 to 50 hours without eating or drinking. This earliest "Ksama series" can be said to prove a complete creative era!
▸ In 1961, Kusama Yayoi appeared in the studio
· "soft sculpture", which is also a kind of resistance! ·
In 1963, Yayoi Kusama held her first solo exhibition, "The Thousand Ship Club", which also made her famous. The white penis in the exhibition hall is covered with boats , and the surrounding walls and ceilings are pasted with 999 monochrome printed posters of this work . People stand in this space, dazzled.
▸ Around 1963, "Kusama's Life Environment"
used male genitals to create soft sculptures , a lot of repeated use shows that she wants to be superior to men , relying on this kind of combative will and fantasy , To realize the resistance to patriarchal oppression .
In that era, her feminism has begun to sprout: "Because I am a woman, I can't be famous. If you see men doing the same thing, they are very popular!"
▸ 1963 "Thousand Ship Club"
▸1963 , Soft Sculpture and Kusama
· "Nude Theater" ·
The 1960s was the period of American sexual liberation . Yayoi Kusama created the "Nude Theater" in New York. She hoped to liberate people’s repressive sex in the form of nude art. Concept.
In the summer of 1967, every Saturday and Sunday, Yayoi Kusama would hold a party , where two or three hundred hippies and enthusiastic young people gathered.
▸Body Festival publicity poster
▸ In 1966, she took the group of people to perform bold nude performances in the streets, parks, and art galleries, attracting art critics, TV reporters, and art critics, police, and art critics.
z3 Accompanied by "naked" instantly spread throughout New York.
Some people think this is avant-garde art, and some people think she is grandstanding.
Then, a radical action called "anti-war" art , even more focused the world's attention on her. On the Brooklyn Bridge, she took a group of naked young people to burn the national flag for the purpose of opposing the war .
▸ 1968 anti-war incidental art
"human bodyThe body is so beautiful, why let it go to the battlefield to die? Which do you think is better, war or sexual liberation? "
▸ Anti-war incidental art in 1968: The nude incident on the Brooklyn Bridge
Kusama's behavior at this time was out of obsession with art, , or for the sake of to gain fame and . I’m afraid we don’t know. Even she herself could not tell whether these nearly crazy actions were deliberately arranged, or caused by the mental illness that has been plagued her.
Some of her old friends began to alienate her , the Kusama family in Japan. After learning of her debauchery in public, completely terminated her contact with her .
·Asian female fighter
However, her struggle did not stop because of this. At the Venice Biennale in 1966 , Yayoi Kusama came uninvited. She wore a golden kimono, like a female warrior from Asia, and arranged 1500 mirror balls on the lawn outside the pavilion, each asking for 2 US dollars , just like sells hot dogs like , she satirizes the sales behavior of the art world at that time.
▸ 1966 Venice Biennale
Of course, this behavior was quickly stopped, and eventually she was invited out by security to . People at the time saw Come, all of her behavior is just for blog to get out of position .
▸1966
"Nahissos Garden"
, ironically, 27 years later, she was invited to the official exhibition. Yayoi Kusama set up a mirror house filled with pumpkins. Nowadays, unlike in the past, one of her silver pumpkins can be sold for 500,000 US dollars.
▸ 1993 "Pumpkin Mirror House" continued to Japan
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In the final analysis, all human beings have struggled with themselves in , and Yayoi Kusama is no exception.
In 1973, she left the United States due to an illness and returned to Japan. At this time, she was facing a very difficult situation. In Japan, She is like an alien intruder , does not belong to any genre, z23 z No one approves of her art . To make matters worse, her mental condition is already very bad...
She was admitted to the nursing home for treatment , where she lived for thirty years. Every day she went to the studio next to the hospital to work on time, drawing in the morning and writing poems or novels at night, without stopping. "My life is radiant with art, and I am willing to fight for it until I die. Even if my body is damaged, I will continue to create day and night."
▸ 1997 "Pumpkin"
▸ 1990 "Pumpkin"
Entering 2000, Yayoi Kusama's works suddenly became popular and became popular.
She finally became famous as she wished! In 2016, Yayoi Kusama received the Japanese Cultural Medal issued by Emperor Akihito himself and became a national treasure of Japanese culture.
▸ The Emperor Yayoi Kusama presented the awards
On October 1, 2017, the art museum named after Yayoi Kusama opened and it became Tokyo Metropolitan zThe most popular art gallery in 411z.
▸ Kusama Yayoi Art Museum Address: 107, Benten-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo. Avoid being too popular. It needs a limited time limit: only 4 groups are allowed per day, each with 50 people , and only 200 people can enter the museum. The admission scan code starts timing, each group has a limited time to visit for 1.5 hours.
▸ Nizhan Jun at Yayoi Kusama Museum
Throughout the past ten years, the total auction value of Yayoi Kusama's artworks on the market has increased from more than US$93 million in the market to more than US$35.45 zzz2324. The speed is 10 times that of Beijing housing prices.
▸ 1989 "Unlimited Net" QNI
▸ 1990 "Sprout"
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▸2009 "After Eternal Destruction"
▸2013 "Soul of Millions of Light-Years"
As she said: "It's all created by my fame, 2zzzzz0, 2zzzzz0." ! But afterwards... She continued to create non-stop at , catching up with the artistic inspiration that kept flashing in her mind, and her "Kusama art" kept expanding and influencing the world. For her, fame and fortune may just make her in this world of struggle, place more hopes on .
Kusama is now 91 years old and . She is still fighting, wearing the iconic polka dot and pink hat. She has never stopped for a day. As she wishes, there will be a world of love and peace around her, ! (Applause)
