{"id":4671,"date":"2016-03-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/2016\/03\/18\/yayoi-kusama\/"},"modified":"2016-03-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T00:00:00","slug":"yayoi-kusama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/?p=4671","title":{"rendered":"Yayoi Kusama"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Henie Onstad Kusntsenter (\/Artcentre) has a great exhibition these days, and as I\u00b4ve been i Oslo, I managed to visit it. It\u00b4s filled with art made by Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese artist, who is probably best known for all her polka-dots.<\/p>\n

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Above is an early painting, an abstract picture of a net or a web. She was so consumed with her work, she could work for &amp;nbsp;50 hours straight. Later the negative became the positive. Where she used to paint a net, she now started to paint dots. Lots of dots.<\/p>\n

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Some of her work is quite grand in size. She also had large inter-active pieces. Like this all-white interior, where a guard gave out colored stickers to the audience, and you could place your sticker wherever you wanted. Can you see my blue dot?<\/p>\n

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She\u00b4s now almost 80 years old, but still busy. Below is a copy of a display-window at a big department store in New York, where she\u00b4s been working with designer using her dots on everything from pures to glasses.<\/p>\n

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Some of her more recent paintings. In her earlier work she was very subtle in her color-use. She\u00b4s not color-humble anymore\u2026<\/p>\n

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Another infinity-room, with mirrored walls: Big rice-lamps with black dots, where the light slowly changed colors.<\/p>\n

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And her polka-dotted pumpkins. A huge shelf filled with them!<\/p>\n

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The exhibition also showed her early sketches, sculptures, fashion-design, magazines, films, performances, all made by her.<\/p>\n

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Me in one of her mirrored rooms. Painted yellow with black polkadots. Everywhere you turned were more dots. Because of the mirrors it became infinite. I was actually a bit surprised at how much I enjoyed her work.&amp;nbsp;She might come off as a bit queer, but I have gained a big respect for her through this exhibition, I think she\u00b4s a really great artist!<\/p>\n

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Henie Onstad Kusntsenter (\/Artcentre) has a great exhibition these days, and as I\u00b4ve been i Oslo, I managed to visit it. It\u00b4s<\/p>\n

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