Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama presented her best works at acontemporary art exhibition that opened at the Japan Foundation Centrefor Cultural Exchange in Hanoi on May 25.
The exhibition,YAYOI KUSAMA: Obsessions, includes four parts, installed in the centre'scourtyard, the main hall, garage and kitchen.
With 1,500 silverballs, the half of the courtyard will be covered with the artist'sinstallation “ Narcissus Garden ”. Nine huge objects with polkadots, entitled “Guidepost to the New Space”, have been arranged in theother half of the courtyard and the garage.
The main exhibitionhall has been turned into a room for the installation “Dots Obsessions”in which visitors can enjoy one of Kusama's most popular installationswith mirrors and dotted balloons.
The small kitchen has beendedicated for the relatively new installation “I'm Here, But Nothing.”Visitors can experience the illusive confusion of two and threedimensions with dizzy illuminated dots.
Born in 1929, Kusama hasworked in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture,film, performance and installation.
Having continuously innovatedand re-invented her style, Kusama's obsessive repetitions and patternsof dots have been widely celebrated and become her trademark.
Kusamareceived a National Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006 and numerousawards including the Order of the Rising Sun and the Premium Imperial inJapan , and was recognised as the Person of Cultural Merit in 2009by the Japanese government.
In 2003, she was also awarded the Order of Arts and Letters in France .
Hersolo art exhibitions have been held in various prestigious museums suchas Museum of Modern Art in New York , Museum of ContemporaryArt Tokyo , Centre Goerges Pompidou in Paris and Tate Modern inLondon .
Her artworks fetched around 4 million-6 million USD atrecent auctions, the highest price for an active female artist in theworld, according to a foundation representative.
The exhibitionis being held at the centre at 27 Quang Trung Street until July 28as part of the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Year 2013.-VNA
The exhibition,YAYOI KUSAMA: Obsessions, includes four parts, installed in the centre'scourtyard, the main hall, garage and kitchen.
With 1,500 silverballs, the half of the courtyard will be covered with the artist'sinstallation “ Narcissus Garden ”. Nine huge objects with polkadots, entitled “Guidepost to the New Space”, have been arranged in theother half of the courtyard and the garage.
The main exhibitionhall has been turned into a room for the installation “Dots Obsessions”in which visitors can enjoy one of Kusama's most popular installationswith mirrors and dotted balloons.
The small kitchen has beendedicated for the relatively new installation “I'm Here, But Nothing.”Visitors can experience the illusive confusion of two and threedimensions with dizzy illuminated dots.
Born in 1929, Kusama hasworked in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture,film, performance and installation.
Having continuously innovatedand re-invented her style, Kusama's obsessive repetitions and patternsof dots have been widely celebrated and become her trademark.
Kusamareceived a National Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006 and numerousawards including the Order of the Rising Sun and the Premium Imperial inJapan , and was recognised as the Person of Cultural Merit in 2009by the Japanese government.
In 2003, she was also awarded the Order of Arts and Letters in France .
Hersolo art exhibitions have been held in various prestigious museums suchas Museum of Modern Art in New York , Museum of ContemporaryArt Tokyo , Centre Goerges Pompidou in Paris and Tate Modern inLondon .
Her artworks fetched around 4 million-6 million USD atrecent auctions, the highest price for an active female artist in theworld, according to a foundation representative.
The exhibitionis being held at the centre at 27 Quang Trung Street until July 28as part of the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Year 2013.-VNA
