The Japanese Kusama show in New York

Kusama poses with his work “Pumpkin” (Pumpkin) in the New York show / efe / Ota Fine Arts

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The long-awaited show by the Japanese Yayoi Kusama at the New York Botanical Garden, which explores in depth the artist’s fascination with nature, opened its doors days ago after a year of delay due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The show, “KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature,” installed on the more than 100 hectares of the New York Botanical Garden, includes four new experiences designed by the popular 92-year-old Japanese artist, which make their debut in this green space in the Bronx.

With the exhibition, the New York Botanist wants to show the fascination that he has felt during his long life for nature and the infinity of ways in which he has manifested it.

“Cosmic Nature,” running until October 31, includes pieces that span Kusama’s prolific professional career. Its iconic polka-dotted pumpkins will also be featured in the Bronx, as well as colorful flower paintings, complemented by new works appearing in public for the first time.

Among them, “Flower Obsession” (2017/2021), a greenhouse full of flowers; “Dancing Pumpkin” (2020), a large sculpture in yellow and black of a pumpkin with long legs that appear to be in motion, and “I Want to Fly to the Universe”, another large sculpture, 4 meters high and organically. In addition, it will be possible to see a new piece of mirrors by Kusama, one of the artist’s most popular formats, with the “Infinity Mirrored Room – Illusion Inside the Heart” (2020), a cube that reflects all the flora of which it is surrounded.

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