The Dots Obsession installation_Collection: Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France, 1988
Yayoi Kusama in the Yellow Tree installation_Installation seen from the Aichi Triennial, Japan, 2010.
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The nine decades of Yayoi Kusama’s life have taken her from rural Japan to the New York art scene to contemporary Tokyo, in a career in which she has continuously innovated and re-invented her style. Well-known for her repeating dot patterns, her art encompasses an astonishing variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, film, performance and immersive installation. It ranges from works on paper featuring intense semi-abstract imagery, to soft sculpture known as ‘Accumulations’, to her ‘Infinity Net’ paintings, made up of carefully repeated arcs of paint built up into large patterns. Since 1977 Kusama has lived voluntarily in a psychiatric institution, and much of her work has been marked with obsessiveness and a desire to escape from psychological trauma. In an attempt to share her experiences, she creates installations that immerse the viewer in her obsessive vision of endless dots and nets or infinitely mirrored space. (Tate Modern)
'Fireflies on water' exhibition 2002
Following a collaborative artistic retrospective of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, Louis Vuitton celebrates her unique style with the Infinity Dots collection.
With both a ready-to-wear and accessories collection, the line was inspired by Yayoi Kusama's most representative works and designed in collaboration with the French fashion label's creative director Marc Jacobs.
