Yayoi Kusama: Give Me Love

Name: Yayoi Kusama: Give Me Love
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9781941701218
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Yayoi Kusama: Give Me Love captures the artist's groundbreaking exhibition at David Zwirner, New York. Central to the show is The Obliteration Room, an all-white domestic space that visitors transform by placing colorful dot stickers all over the surfaces, evolving into a vivid, immersive environment. Alongside this interactive installation are Kusama's large-format paintings from her My Eternal Soul series, showcasing her masterful use of colour and form. The catalogue also features her large, stainless steel Pumpkin sculptures adorned with painted dots or perforations, reflecting themes that span her career from the 1950s onward. Accompanying texts include a "Hymn to Yayoi Kusama" by Akira Tatehata and a poem by Kusama herself.
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This book is ideal for fans of contemporary art, especially those interested in immersive installations and Yayoi Kusama's pioneering work with colour, pattern, and form. It will also appeal to collectors, art critics, and anyone engaged with avant-garde visual culture.

Yayoi Kusama: Give Me Love documents the artist's most recent exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, which marked the US debut of The Obliteration Room, an all-white, domestic interior that viewers are invited to cover with dot stickers of various sizes and colors. Taking The Obliteration Room as its centerpiece, this catalogue reveals, in vivid large-scale plates, the transformation of the space from a clean white interior to a stunningly saturated room, with ceilings, walls, and furniture covered in myriad multicolored stickers put there by viewers over the course of the exhibition. The catalogue also includes beautiful reproductions of Kusama's new largeformat paintings from My Eternal Soul series.

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Yayoi Kusama: Give Me Love documents the artist's most recent exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, which marked the US debut of The Obliteration Room, an all-white, domestic interior that viewers are invited to cover with dot stickers of various sizes and colours.

Taking The Obliteration Room as its centrepiece, this catalogue reveals, in vivid large-scale plates, the transformation of the space from a clean white interior to a stunningly saturated room, with ceilings, walls, and furniture covered in myriad multicoloured stickers put there by viewers over the course of the exhibition.

The catalogue also includes beautiful reproductions of Kusama's new large-format paintings from the My Eternal Soul series. Ranging from bright and densely pixelated forms to umber figures with darker blues and muted oranges, these paintings demonstrate the artist's striking command of colour, and her exceptional control over balance and contrast.

The catalogue continues with a selection of new, large Pumpkin sculptures, a form that Kusama has been exploring since her studies in Japan in the 1950s, and which gained prominence in the 1980s, continuing to remain an essential part of her practice. Made of shiny stainless steel and featuring painted dots or dot-shaped perforations that recall The Obliteration Room, these immersive works seem created on a human scale, with the tallest measuring 70 inches (178 cm). Vibrant plates capture how colour, shape, size, and surface merge in these sculptures and mesmerise the viewer.

Texts include a "Hymn to Yayoi Kusama" by art critic and poet Akira Tatehata and a poem by the artist herself.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

The Obliteration Room is described as "one of the most hotly anticipated aspects of the Give Me Love show," according to Christina Ohly Evans of the Financial Times. Alanna Martinez of the Observer notes that "if a few minutes inside The Obliteration Room simply isn't enough to satisfy your dot needs, the fun continues off-site."

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781941701218

Publisher: David Zwirner

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 22 February 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: David Zwirner

Illustration: Illustrated in colour throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 247.0mm

Height: 305.0mm

Weight: 1140g

Pages: 120

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Yayoi Kusama's work has transcended two of the most important art movements of the second half of the twentieth century: pop art and minimalism. Her extraordinary and highly influential career spans paintings, performances, room-size presentations, outdoor sculptural installations, literary works, films, fashion, design, and interventions within existing architectural structures, which allude at once to microscopic and macroscopic universes.

Akira Tatehata is an art critic and poet based in Japan who has written extensively about Yayoi Kusama's work. In 1993, he invited the artist to represent Japan at the 45th Venice Biennale. He now serves as the President of the Kyoto City University of Arts, Director of The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, and Chairman of the Japanese Council of Museums.