“Yayoi Kusama: Obsessions” is one of the activities to celebrate the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Year 2013 and the 40th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries.
The main exhibition hall has been turned into the “Dots Obsessions” installation, which will amuse visitors with an array of mirrors, polka dots and balloons.
Half of the courtyard is covered with 1,500 silver balls from her legendary “Narcissus Garden”, while nine huge spotted objects entitled “Guideposts to the New Space” take up the other half and the garage.
The small kitchen in the annex building is dedicated to the relatively new installation “I’m Here, but Nothing” where visitors can experience the confusing illusion of two and three dimensional objects with dizzying illuminated dots.
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| Artist Yayoi Kusama |
Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese avant-garde sculptor, painter and novelist who received the National Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.
In her more than seven decade career as an artist, Kusama has worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, film, performance and installation. She continuously innovates and re-invents her style, and her widely celebrated obsessive repetitions and patterns of dots have become her trademark.
Photos from Kusama’s Hanoi exhibition:
