Posts tagged Yayoi Kusama

y a y o i  k u s a m a  A R T I S T posing in her installation International Galerij Orez, 1965 “Just weeks after moving into an East 19th street loft in September 1961, Yayoi Kusama, aided by Donald Judd, began sewing and stuffing hundreds of small canvas sacks full of cotton… Some were erect; others were semi-flaccid… this collision between what were now unmistakably phallic objects into this realm of kitsch-infused, quotidian femininity… undertaken to conquer her fear of the phallus… she recalls, ‘i began making penises in order to heal my feelings of disgust towards sex… i was terrified  of sex, and of the phallus.’” accumulations, chris kraus  GO SEE until September 30, 2012

y a y o i  k u s a m a  A R T I S T

posing in her installation International Galerij Orez, 1965

“Just weeks after moving into an East 19th street loft in September 1961, Yayoi Kusama, aided by Donald Judd, began sewing and stuffing hundreds of small canvas sacks full of cotton… Some were erect; others were semi-flaccid… this collision between what were now unmistakably phallic objects into this realm of kitsch-infused, quotidian femininity… undertaken to conquer her fear of the phallus… she recalls, ‘i began making penises in order to heal my feelings of disgust towards sex… i was terrified  of sex, and of the phallus.’” accumulations, chris kraus 

GO SEE until September 30, 2012

G O  S E E:  Y A Y O I  K U S A M A  fireflies on the water

the whitney, new york through september 30, 2012

“Yayoi Kusama’s depictions of seemingly endless space have been a central focus of her artistic career. Kusama’s Fireflies on the Water with its carefully constructed environment… creates a space in which individual viewers are invited to transcend their sense of self.” watch polka dot world. 

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