“Yayoi Kusama: Obsessions” exhibition marks Japan – Vietnam Friendship Year
Monday, 03/06/2013 11:09 (GMT+7)
(CPV) – On the occasion of the Japan – Vietnam Friendship Year 2013, the best of Japanese contemporary art, in an installation exhibition titled “Yayoi Kusama: Obsessions” held by the Japan Foundation Centre for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, is taking place from May 25th to July 28th in Hanoi.
Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese avant-garde sculptor, painter and novelist, has received the National Lifetime Achievement Awards in 2006.
In her career of over 7 decades as an artist, Kusama has worked in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, film, performance and installation art. Having continuously innovated and re-invented her style, Kusama’s obsessive repetitions and patterns of dots have been widely celebrated and have become her trademark
She has held solo art exhibitions in various prestigious museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMa), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the Pompidou Centre (Paris) and Tate Modern (London).
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Hideo Suzuki, Japanese ambassador to Vietnam, delivered a speech
at the opening ceremony of the exhibition |
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"Yayoi Kusama: Obsessions" is the culmination of major installation works |
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The paintings express in many forms of art the message: "Love is eternal" |
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The artwork of “Guidepost to the New Space” |
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1500 stainless balls to represent the legendary work “Narcissus Garden” |
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The artwork "I'm here, but Nothing" brings to the public the experience
of 2D and 3D hallucination |
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Each artwork creates strong visual impact on the visitors |
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Nine artworks all deliver the trademark of Yayoi Kusama |
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The exchange activity has created artistic inspiration, towards
the development of culture and art in Vietnam |