Inside the mesmerizing new Yayoi Kusama retrospective.
CNN International will air an inside look at the Yayoi Kusama show as part of its New Year's Eve Live special on December 31.
Best known for her signature pumpkin sculptures and polka-dot paintings, which can command millions of dollars at auction, Kusama's success has skyrocketed in the past decade. The most photogenic parts of her oeuvre — including her immersive"Infinity Mirror Room" installations, tickets for which sell out at museums the world over — have achieved mainstream appeal in the era of social media.
Visitors are given a sense of how these forms have evolved, beginning in a room filled with her"Infinity Net" paintings — including a breakthrough work she created after seeing the Pacific Ocean for the very first time from a plane window when she moved to the US from Japan in 1957. Elsewhere, the exhibition features lesser-known pieces from the artist's repertoire, shining a light on what she created mid-career, when she returned to Japan depressed and disillusioned. Among them is a black and white stuffed fabric sculpture from 1976 called"Death of a Nerve."
Small by comparison is a group of 11 paintings the artist began in 2021 and completed this summer, called"Every Day I Pray for Love."
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