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Yaiwi Kusama: We visited an exhibition of the famous Japanese artist before everyone else
40,000 tickets have already been sold: We did a tour of the most talked about art exhibition ever in Israel - the retrospective of Yaiwi Kosama at the Tel Aviv Museum - and we fell in love. This is what awaits you there
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Sunday, 31 October 2021, 13:31 Updated: 13:44
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A retrospective by Yaiwi Kusama at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, November 2021 (Walla system)
In two weeks, the first exhibition ever by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama will open to the general public at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
This is a particularly large retrospective exhibition, which reviews more than 70 years of the most prolific work by one of the most important and beloved artists living today.
The 92-year-old Kusama is still active and continues to create.
And the upcoming exhibition will also feature a number of new works she has created especially for her, including a huge installation called "A Wreath of Love I Saw in the Universe" that looks like huge, pink and spotted octopus arms rising from floor to floor, surrounding and enveloping the viewer.
The retrospective at the Tel Aviv Museum includes about 200 works and four "infinity rooms" (unique and very Instagram mirror rooms), some of which are new works that have never been shown. This is one of the most important and large exhibitions ever shown at the Tel Aviv Museum Its buildings, with a total area of about 3,000 square meters.
The curators of the exhibition, led by Susan Landau, said that even at her advanced age, Kosama followed and was involved in every detail of the exhibition, through her studio in Japan.
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One of Kusama's four infinity rooms on display at the Tel Aviv Museum. 'Pumpkin Winds Falling into the Sky', 2006-2007 (Photo: Walla!
Yes, the floor is made of pasta.
Kusama's exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum (Photo: Walla !, Meitar Schleider Putschnik)
At a press conference held today at the museum, curator Landau said that it was the Corona crisis that gave rise to the unique opportunity to bring an exhibition of this magnitude to Israel - both in terms of the size of the exhibition and its importance. And the great interest that emerges from the audience - the first 40,000 tickets offered for sale sold out within two days - signals that the investment and the great efforts invested in bringing it to Israel are expected to pay off.
Kusama is the most tagged artist on social media and hundreds of thousands of people around the world photograph themselves in the unique environments that Kusama creates and share their photos on social media. Kusama's better-known works include dotted pumpkin sculptures, infinity rooms - whose walls are made of mirrors that repeatedly reflect the viewer's reflection in an environment laden with graphic images (mostly circles and colored dots) and "peep-show" exhibits in which the observer peeks through a small window Featuring mesmerizing light displays.
You will not want to leave.
The performance 'A Stranger of Love I Saw in the Universe' created by Kosama especially for this exhibition, 2021 (Photo: Walla !, Meitar Schleider Putschnik)
At the age of 92 Kusama is still creative and also very involved in every detail of the exhibition.
One of the exhibition rooms (Photo: Walla !, Meitar Schleider Putschnik)
Since it is a retrospective, the exhibition also includes very early works by Kusama, which she created in the 1950s while still in Japan, and before traveling to New York.
In the 1960s, Kosama came to New York alone and integrated into the local art scene, although she arrived without ties or language.
This turbulent period, culturally, artistically and socially, greatly influenced her work and revolutionized it, which is clearly evident in the chronological journey that the exhibition leads visitors along.
Kusama stands in the center of one of the infinity rooms she created: 'Pali Field', 1965 (Photo: Courtesy: Ota Fine Arts; Victoria Miro; David Zwirner)
The magnetic and playful aesthetics of Kusama's work are closely linked to the mental illness that Kusama has been dealing with since childhood.
Already at the age of 10 she was diagnosed as a mental contender, and her pursuit of art is largely part of her coping and treatment.
Her studio, where she creates her unique and one-time works, is located across the road from the psychiatric institution where she lives in Tokyo.
Every morning she goes to create in it, and at the end of the day she returns to the therapeutic institution where she has lived for decades.
The exhibition will be displayed at the Tel Aviv Museum thanks to a collaboration with Studio Kosama in Tokyo and with the Martin Gropius Bau Museum in Berlin.
It will be officially opened on November 15, 2021 and will be on display at the Tel Aviv Museum until April 2022.
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