Nippon-ismes @ Galerie Da-End in Paris

From 
the 
10th of 
November
 to 
the 
28th 

of
 December 
2012,
to 
mark
 the 
month
 of
 photography,
 the 
Da‐End
 Gallery 
is
 showing ‘NIPPON‐ISMES’ an
 exhibition 
which 
brings 
together
 seven 
photographers
 from 
different
 generations
 whose 
works, 
from 
either 
a 
journalistic
 or
 visual 
approach
 to 
the
 medium,
 all 
question 
contemporary 
Japanese
 identity
 and 
culture.

Oliver in Front of Yayoi's Installation for Louis Vuitton

Oliver Maxwell Kupper in front of Yayoi Kusama's installation at Louis Vuitton as part of their current collaboration. Pick up a copy of our current issue to read our exclusive interview and story with Yayoi Kusama - easily Japan's most famous artist. photograph by Summer Bowie

Guidepost to the New Space by Yayoi Kusama

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Exhibition view of Yayoi Kusama's Guidepost to the New Space. To mark Kusama’s retrospective at the Whitney, the Museum has collaborated with the Hudson River Park Trust and Gagosian Gallery to present a special art project near the Whitney Museum’s new building site in the Meatpacking District.

Yayoi Kusama for Louis Vuitton

Princess of polka dots Yayoi Kusama has teamed up with Louis Vutton for a special capsule collection. The collection, entitled Infinitely Kusama, is set to be unveiled on July 10, conveniently timed with Kusama’s major retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York. The goods will be available in Vuitton’s 461 stores starting July 11, with a second line arriving in October.

Yayoi Kusama: Hong Kong Blooms in My Mind

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Sotheby’s announces an exclusive selling exhibition of works by Yayoi Kusama in their brand new gallery space in Hong Kong. The exhibition, entitled Hong Kong Blooms In My Mind, showcases seminal works in a variety of mediums and from a range of important dates in the artist’s oeuvre. On view from May 19 to  May 30, 2012

Walking Piece

Walking Piece, 1966 / Image courtesy: Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo / © Yayoi Kusama, Yayoi Kusama Studio inc.

Yayoi Kusama in one of her performance art pieces entitled Walking Piece. Stay tuned for an interview and more photos of Yayoi Kusama in the upcoming issue of AUTRE - out this week. Be sure to sign up for the newsletter to find a copy!

Polka Dots Are a Way to Infinity: Yayoi Kusama

In the next year we'll be hearing a lot about Yayoi Kusama.  The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who Yoko Ono sites as an influence, was born in Japan in 1929 and at the age of ten started to paint her infamous polka-dots and net motifs. In a Yayoi Kusama universe things would look like what the world would look like if an obsessive compulsive God on a mushroom trip created it.  Yayoi Kusama says about polk-dots: "...a polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colorful, senseless and unknowing. Polka-dots become movement... Polka dots are a way to infinity." Kusama has also published many books including Manhattan Suicide Addict - a photographic and typographic treatise on the isolation of exile through the pure formation of art.   On view now at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid many of Yayoi Kusama's most personal works on view until September. The exhibition will then move to the Centre Pompidou in París, then to the Tate in London, and finally to the Whitney in New York.  www.museoreinasofia.es

Text by Oliver Maxwell Kupper for Pas Un Autre