Yayoi Kusama

At the Galleria Civica of Modena the first solo exhibition in an Italian museum of Yayoi Kusama, the most important living Japanese artist.

The Exhibition “Yayoi Kusama. Metamorphosis”, curated by Angela Vettese with Milovan Farronato, is designed by the artist herself with environment installations as well as paintings and object sculptures: the spectators will walk through an environment full of coloured dots of light: this is certainly one way of showing just how dazzling a simple domestic space can be, and therefore, just how estranged the things we consider nearest to us may become; or through a room full of bio-morphous shapes forming an amusing labyrinth which then leads to the paintings in which the artist maniacally draws little circles or fills in boxes, shoes and other unlikely containers with unsettling little shapes, like micro-organisms besieging us, or like tiny excrescence growing out of control.

The key topics on which the exhibition is based, as are the entire works of the artist are therefore the love/hate relationship with control, but also manual work and creativity in general as an antidote to anxiety.

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Yayoi Kusama
Metamorphosis
Produktion / Organisation: Galleria Civica di Modena and Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena
Palazzina dei Giardini, Modena