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Yayoi Kusama: I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers

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Description

Discover widely revered Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's latest monumental and vibrant work, I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers, and explore the experience of seeing it from the lens of the visitor.

 

"My entire life has been painted here. Every day, any day. I will never cease dedicating my whole life to my love for the universe." —Yayoi Kusama

 

One of the most influential artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Yayoi Kusama occupies a unique position within recent art history. Since the 1950s, she has created a profoundly personal oeuvre that resonates with a global audience. Distinctly recognizable, her works frequently deploy repetitive elements—such as dots—to evoke both microscopic and macroscopic universes.

 

Celebrating the visitor experience, this publication offers an immersive tour of Kusama's 2023 exhibition at David Zwirner, New York. Illustrating thirty-five paintings, a gigantic sculptural installation of pumpkins, a trio of towering, colorful flower sculptures, and a fan-favorite Infinity Mirror Room, I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers is a vivid document with varying perspectives that echo Kusama's own.

 

New scholarship by Robert Slifkin looks at how Kusama innovates and complicates art historical traditions of image production and how her art seeks to connect humans with the greater cosmos. An essay by Lynn Zelevansky reflects on her own long-standing engagement with Kusama's work and the ways in which it, across the decades, can be seen as a record of love in all its complexity: full of humanity, generosity, affection, sadness, and pain.

Specifications

Hardcover book
168 pages
26.2cm x 21cm x 1.9cm
Published 5th November 2024 by David Zwirner

Description

Discover widely revered Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's latest monumental and vibrant work, I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers, and explore the experience of seeing it from the lens of the visitor.

 

"My entire life has been painted here. Every day, any day. I will never cease dedicating my whole life to my love for the universe." —Yayoi Kusama

 

One of the most influential artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Yayoi Kusama occupies a unique position within recent art history. Since the 1950s, she has created a profoundly personal oeuvre that resonates with a global audience. Distinctly recognizable, her works frequently deploy repetitive elements—such as dots—to evoke both microscopic and macroscopic universes.

 

Celebrating the visitor experience, this publication offers an immersive tour of Kusama's 2023 exhibition at David Zwirner, New York. Illustrating thirty-five paintings, a gigantic sculptural installation of pumpkins, a trio of towering, colorful flower sculptures, and a fan-favorite Infinity Mirror Room, I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers is a vivid document with varying perspectives that echo Kusama's own.

 

New scholarship by Robert Slifkin looks at how Kusama innovates and complicates art historical traditions of image production and how her art seeks to connect humans with the greater cosmos. An essay by Lynn Zelevansky reflects on her own long-standing engagement with Kusama's work and the ways in which it, across the decades, can be seen as a record of love in all its complexity: full of humanity, generosity, affection, sadness, and pain.

Specifications

Hardcover book
168 pages
26.2cm x 21cm x 1.9cm
Published 5th November 2024 by David Zwirner

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