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Inhotim yayoi kusama, date unknown, by Yayoi Kusama. From the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Japan · b. 1929

Yayoi Kusama

Artist of infinite dots, nets and mirrored rooms.

  • Vibrant
  • Radical
  • Abstract Geometrics

Fun fact

She has voluntarily lived in a Tokyo psychiatric facility since 1977, walking to her studio across the street each day.

How she made it

Obsessive repetition: hand-painted dots and net loops laid down one at a time across canvas, objects and whole rooms, extended into soft sewn-and-stuffed protrusions and mirrored infinity installations.

Work
Inhotim yayoi kusama, date unknown
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