The recognizable creativity of the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama Fills a New York gallery since Wednesday, where its enormous sculptures of flowers and pumpkins and one of its famous rooms with infinity mirrors promise to summon crowds.
At 94, Kusama is an icon of contemporary art who continues to produce works -and of a great caliber- that are exhibited in museums and places around the world, in this case the David Zwirner gallery, which has witnessed and contributed to his growth as a cultural phenomenon.
David Zwirner, who has represented Kusama for a decade, has previously organized exhibitions of the artist in which long lines of people have formed willing to wait hours to see her works and spend a few minutes -timed- documenting her immersive universe.
In a visit for the media before the inauguration, which will take place tomorrow, Thursday, an unusual silence is breathed before the flowers and mottled pumpkins that rise almost three meters high and that contrast with the pristine white of the two large industrial rooms that they occupy.
And it is that the group of journalists and “influencers” is concentrated around the white cube that houses the last of the more than twenty “infinity rooms” (mirror rooms) produced by the artist since 1965, which are a mixture between artistic installation and, increasingly, mass attraction and “selfie” stage.
A gallery worker, watch in hand, opens the door every two minutes for visitors to come in and out and immediately thanks the “patience” of those who wait and of those who, with no option to object, let them go first the “VIP” (very important people, in English).
The room, which is entitled “Dreaming of the sphericity of the Earth, I would offer my love”, is a kaleidoscopic space in which natural light enters through colored round windows, creating a cave populated by hundreds of blue circles. , yellows and reds that multiply endlessly.
The gallery, which boasts of offering one of the largest Kusama exhibitions to date, received some 94,000 people in its last commitment to the artist in 2021, a figure worthy of a museum and that could increase, taking into account the popularity of the one that enjoys
Without going any further than New York, the Japanese creator launched a permanent mosaic at Grand Central Station a few months ago, and two years ago she took over the city’s Botanical Garden with sculptures hidden among plants, trees covered in polka dots and immersive greenhouses.
Kusama herself has become part of pop culture, something that the Louis Vuitton brand took advantage of this year by promoting its collection of bags by placing a robot in the likeness of the artist who painted and looking at the public from behind the window in its store on the Fifth Avenue.
In the absence of appearing in person, today the artist shared a welcome message to her show, in which she seems to wink at her new followers: “I have sung Kusama’s mind every day, a song from the heart. Oh, youth of today, let us sing a song from the heart of the universe”.
2023-05-11 15:32:00
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