The Tel Aviv Museum of Art has held a major retrospective exhibition of works by the 93-year-old Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. The exhibition — a first for the Jewish state — ran from mid-November 2021 to earlier this month. It included 250 artworks divided into Kusama’s different periods — starting with her upbringing in Japan, moving into her first works created in the U.S. where she moved temporarily in the late 1950s, and then in Europe, and after she moved back to Japan.
— The Times of Israel
Quote: “Kusama refers to her vast fields of polka dots as ‘infinity nets,’ taken directly from her hallucinations. The exhibit refers in its texts and videos to Kusama’s well-documented lifelong battle with mental health problems and her use of art to fight pain, anxiety, and fear. She famously checked herself into a Tokyo psychiatric institute in 1977 and has lived there ever since, working in her studio across the street.”
— The Times of Israel
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