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PUMPKIN 2000
Yayoi Kusama2024.04.30 ~ 2024.05.31
Description of the work
- Media Silkscreen
- Location SIGNIEL SEOUL The Lounge 79F
“One day I was looking at red floral patterns on a tablecloth, and I had a vision of them flying out and filling the whole room, filling my body and the universe, and a vision of round polka dots floating through the air and sticking to me.”
- Yayoi Kusama
The pumpkin symbolizes the nature that I interacted with as a child and represents a generous innocence. Repeating, aggregating, multiplying, and spreading the same elements or patterns to connect with his own paranoia is a means of liberating the artist from his psychotic paranoia and hallucinations, and the meaning of the pumpkin has been transformed from “ugly” to an imaginary object that brings happiness and joy.
Artwork Inquiry 1533-8017
- Yayoi Kusama
The pumpkin symbolizes the nature that I interacted with as a child and represents a generous innocence. Repeating, aggregating, multiplying, and spreading the same elements or patterns to connect with his own paranoia is a means of liberating the artist from his psychotic paranoia and hallucinations, and the meaning of the pumpkin has been transformed from “ugly” to an imaginary object that brings happiness and joy.
Artwork Inquiry 1533-8017
About the author
Yayoi Kusama, a master of contemporary art, was born in 1929 in Matsumoto City, Nagano, Japan. She has produced more than 250 works to date, with organically connected nets and dots, the motifs of her work to date, and is considered a pioneer of the Pop Art, Minimalism, and Feminist art movements, among others. She has worked in a variety of fields, including sculpture, painting, illustration, and fashion. In 2016, she was named one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World” by Time magazine, and Kusama was the first woman to be honored with the prestigious medal for drawings and sculptures. She is actively exhibiting his work around the world, holding unprecedentedly large solo exhibitions.
Yayoi Kusama (1929-, Japan)
Kyoto School of Arts and Crafts
