Kusama has created several new works of pumpkin art since the start of the new millennium.
London: Tate Publishing, 2013. Finally, patterns were added with metallic markers. Now it’s trying to make up for lost time, organizing exhibitions such as Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (Feb 23–May 14, 2017), or Yayoi Kusama: All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins at Dallas Museum of Art (October 1, 2017 to February 25, 2018, GO SEE IT!).
Yayoi Kusama -- All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins (detail), 2016, wood, mirror, plastic, acrylic, LED Kusama’s fear of sex Case in point, her Installation appropriately named Phalli’s Field 13 , 1965, featured an infinity field of phallus shapes to help her get over her fear of sex. What appealed to me most was the pumpkin’s generous unpretentiousness. Here, as if implanted on our optical nerve, the dots of the wider room and the pumpkins within the 'peep-space', seem to reproduce at an alarming rate, overgrowing their environment and threatening to obliterate the viewer's body. Kusama, Yayoi, and Ralph F. McCarthy. Then the pumpkins were cut out. MoMA Exclusive: Inspired by Yayoi Kusama’s iconic pumpkin sculptures, this small leather coin purse features a charming retro design. Yayoi Kusama Small Pumpkin Paintings 2nd March – 1st June 2018 “I was enchanted by their charming and winsome form. Yayoi Kusama is an artist represented in MoMA’s collection. It seems that pumpkins do not inspire much respect. The pumpkin is one of Yayoi Kusama’s most well-known motifs, and the artist employs the gourd as both an allegory and a form of self-portraiture—in paintings, drawing, sculptures and installations. Subscribe to the weekly AnOther newsletter.
When the dots were dry, the pumpkins were glued to a solid background paper.
But I was enchanted by their charming and winsome form. Yayoi Kusama is among the world's most influential artists. That and its solid spiritual base” (Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama, trans.
The next step was to use tempera paint and Q-tips to make dots on the pumpkins.
What appealed to me most was the pumpkin’s generous unpretentiousness. Read the full article in the latest issue of AnOther Magazine, out now. Ralph McCarthy, London 2011, p.76).
While this first and a couple of other projects would be installed in Japan, many others would be scattered all around the world. In 2016 and 2017, respectively, she debuted two new pumpkin-themed Mirror Rooms—titled All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins and The Spirits Of The Pumpkins Descended Into The Heavens.In addition to illustrating her lifelong love of pumpkins, these installations draw on several of …
Infinity net: the autobiography of Yayoi Kusama.
Here are some of Yayoi Kusama’s amazing pumpkins for reference: In Japan, this is an extremely auspicious age because 8 is a lucky number and the Japanese/Chinese characters for 88 (八十八) can be reassembled into the character for rice (米) – …
“The pumpkins have reappeared in the past few years, cast larger than life in bronze, mosaic and stainless steel, with apertures cut out of their surfaces to create dot-pattern plays with light and shadow. In 2017, her personal museum opened in Tokyo, Japan with much fanfare, and the open air Pumpkin sculpture was one of the highlights of the museum.
The purse has a black grosgrain lining. Yayoi Kusama: Bronze Pumpkins is at Victoria Miro Gallery until Decmber 19. Yayoi Kusama made her first sculpture in 1994 which was a solid yellow colored pumpkin with a clear spot pattern. Fashion & Beauty Behind the Pages. Words by Laura Allsop.