Glimpses of Yayoi Kusama’s Art Universe
By Ooi Kok Chuen
April 2017 PENANG PALETTE
A major survey exhibition of the most expensive living woman artist (since 2014) known for her hypnotic 3P’s – Prolific polka dots, Patterned Pumpkins and Psychedelic Mirrors (Infinity Nets) – will come to Singapore in June.This eccentric and reclusive art supernova has had double appearances in the Venice Biennale in 1966 (Narcissus Garden) and 1993 (Pumpkin sculptures), apart from the Aichi Triennale in 2010; numerous retrospectives accorded by major museums; commissions of monumental sculpture/ mural; and prestigious awards including Japan’s...
Ooi Kok Chuen
is an art-writer and journalist, and the author of MAHSURI: A Legend Reborn (Ooi Peeps Publishing), an adult contemporary fantasy “movel” (a novel conceived as a mock movie) spun from a local legend.
