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Love ForeverThirteen years after the Second World War Yayoi Kusama entered the American art scene. The exhibition 'Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama 1958-1968' opened in Los Angeles in 1998 and will close in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, 4 July 1999.
In 1958 Kusama arrived in New York at the age of 29 with 2000 small works on paper, many of which bore the marks of what would soon become her signature motif: a buoyant field of little dots and specks surging in space.
Some of these intimate works, along with sculpture, installations, film and photo documents of performances, are the subject of 'Love Forever', the ten-year retrospective of Kusama's work. The curators, Lynn Zelevansky and Laura Hoptman, claim that the retrospective, beginning with work from 1958 and extending to 1968, covers the period that establishes Kusama's rightful position in international and New York art history.
The importance of Kusama for the development of female artists, in the openness which is striking in her narcissistic self-portraits, is undeniable. Kusama has influenced many young artists with her personal and emotional approach.
'Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama 1958-1968': Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, until 7 March 1999; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 29 April – 4 July 1999.
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