Yayoi Kusama

Giant sculptures of tulips, a pumpkin, dogs and a doll are located in the gallery's canal-side garden and ground floor exhibition space, along with new paintings, creating a surreal inside-out landscape of nature and artifice. Kusama's preoccupation with the infinite and the sublime - to be found... Read more

Giant sculptures of tulips, a pumpkin, dogs and a doll are located in the gallery’s canal-side garden and ground floor exhibition space, along with new paintings, creating a surreal inside-out landscape of nature and artifice. Kusama’s preoccupation with the infinite and the sublime – to be found in pattern and repetition that date back to her earliest works from the 1950s – are continued in her new paintings which include self portraits, flowers, still lifes and her signature yellow pumpkins. Encapsulating the surreal and the instinctual within the pop and the decorative these new works present an extension of Kusama’s practice that is as fresh and thought-provoking as ever.