YAYOI KUSAMA was born in Matsumoto in 1929, she was the youngest of four children. He began making art already at the age of 10 years and, he has been painting dots ever since. Kusama says that when she was a child she drew, her mother came suddenly behind her and tore the drawings from her hands, creating in her the panic that has affected so much in her creative process, as a reaction to this behavior of the mother he leads her to finish the drawings faster and faster before the maternal incursion.
The Kusama family was involved in the wholesale of seeds, vegetables and plants. His complicated inner world evolved in parallel with his growth, and to 10 years the hallucinations began, both visual and hearing: sees the aura around objects,and hears about plants and animals. From this moment on, painting becomes an expressive means to communicate his complicated emotional state to the world. He attended art school and studied Nihonga painting, a style characterized by a great formal rigor.
In your biography, she tells of the beginning when she was in a field of flowers and ... "there was a blinding light, I was blinded by the flowers, looking around me there was that persistent image, I felt like I was sinking as if those flowers wanted to annihilate me "An experience that will mark his life with dramatic consequences. Nel 1958 after a correspondence with Georgia o'Keeffe, whom she considers her muse, moves to New York. A start with many difficulties, in a male-dominated artistic reality; “In those first months I was very poor, realJapanese many paintings, every day I drew e I painted so I could feel really satisfied "
The first exhibition is at the BRATA gallery where many artists were born, mainly abstract expressionists where, attracted the attention of critic John Donn: "Her work based on conceptual art shows some aspects of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, gross art, pop art and abstract expressionism all united by the polka dot technique "Nel 1975 permanently leaves New York, he must return to Japan due to vision problems and constant hallucinations. Dal 1977 he is a regular guest at the Seiwa Hospital in Tokyo, but this did not prevent her from renting a studio in front of the hospital, where he goes every day to paint and also collaborate with famous fashion brands such as Louis Vuitton and Lancome. Nel 1993 she is invited to represent Japan at the Venice Biennale. About I would say the philosopher Asada Akira writes: “Has been able to reverse the phenomenon, potentially deadly,of compulsive repetition, he transformed it into art and thus planned a path of healing (…) his art has gone far beyond simple self / healing "
There are many collections where polka dots of all sizes appear. Marc Jacobs used Kusama's creativity to give a twist to the historic Vuitton logo and dots of all sizes invade the famous bags. Christopher Kane prints large black stamps on large rainbow bands in the PVC trench coat. While Chiara Boni gives a more sophisticated version of it on a duster coat and satin hat. In an elegant version on chiffon, Valentino aligns the so-called “Polka Dots” on black-white stripes. Extremely versatile patterns, Moncler demonstrates this by quilting large stamps on the nylon jacket and hat.
