Yayoi Kusama
I’ve been planning a wee trip to London for a while now, and just waiting for there to be enough good stuff happening to warrant the crazy cost of the train. Amongst other things, the Yayoi Kusama exhibition at Tate Modern is going to be high on the agenda. 82 year old Japanese artist Kusama is known for her obsession with polka dots, an obsession that led to her collaborating with Louis Vuitton, exhibiting alongside Andy Warhol, and now this 14 room retrospective at the Tate. Since 1977 Kusama has lived voluntarily in a psychiatric institution, perhaps explaining the theme of obsession that dominates much of her work.
