Yayoi Kusama dies, the artist who brought her childhood visions to galleries and storefronts around the world
oglobo27 August 2026 at 14:01
Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese artist born in 1929 in Matsumoto, who transformed childhood hallucinations — visions of flowers, dots and patterns — into a singular aesthetic based on repetition and infinity, died. In the 1950s, she moved to New York, where she gained prominence in the avant-garde scene with the "Infinity Nets," paintings composed of extensive networks of dots, as well as sculptures, performances and installations such as "Narcissus Garden," presented at the Venice Biennale in 1966 without official invitation. Her relationship with fashion resulted in collaborations with Louis Vuitton, bringing her characteristic dots to bags, clothing and accessories in 2012 and again in subsequent collections.
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