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Galerie Daniel Templon is pleased to present three recent installations by Yayoi Kusama shown for the first time in France.
Yayoi Kusama's Narcissus Garden, an installation of mirrored balls, was recently shown in the Conservatory Water, New York, as part of the Public Art Fund project and the 2004 Whitney Biennial exhibition. It connects back to her notorious Narcissus Garden for the 1966 Venice Biennale where the artist was censured for selling 1,500 mirrored globes under a sign that read "Your Narcissism for Sale." Over the past three decades, Kusama has often revisited mirrored forms in her work, exploring notions of infinity, illusion, and repetition in discrete sculptures and room-size installations.
Heaven and Earth, first created in 1991, also presented in the exhibition explores another key aspect in her work : hallucination. Composed of forty fabric covered boxes filled with almost 300 stuffed hand-sewn forms, the piece evokes both a magical garden and an horror vision. Immaculately white, it plays on the ambiguity of its phallic shapes : threatening mushrooms, surreal flowers, submarine animals..... They act as a reminiscence of her sixties work when she used to compulsively cover every-day objects with phallic forms : tables, chairs, shoes...
This theme is carried through Gold shoes (2000) where 50 individual high-heel shoes, covered by uncanny phallic shapes, are scattered around the gallery space. An exploration of sexuality, desire and childhood, this work also tackles with illness, both mental and physical. In the past, Yayoi Kusama has readily described a life made of hallucination and paranoia, which has led to her voluntarily residence in a psychiatric hospital specializing in art therapy since 1977. Although this biographical aspect is hard to forget, her work cannot be reduced only to the result of mental illness. It is also a radical investigation of contemporary sculpture and its relationship to body-art, performance and feminism.
Born in 1929 in Japan, Kusama arrived in New York in 1958 where she showed her work with major painters and sculptors of the time such as Claes Oldenburg, Robert Morris and Andy Warhol. In Europe her work was exhibited with the Nul and Zero Groups together with that of Yves Klein and Piero Manzoni. Amongst the collectors of her work were Frank Stella, Donald Judd and Lucio Fontana, demonstrating the great esteem in which she was held by her contemporaries.
In 1998, her work was the subject of "Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama 1958-1968", a major travelling exhibition focusing on her decade in New York, that was jointly organised by the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Other major solo shows were organized by the Serpentine Gallery, London and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.The Mori Art Museum in Tokyo recently organized the retrospective "Kusamatrix". In France, her work was last seen at the Biennale dâ--Art Contemporain de Lyon and Galerie Pièce Unique in Paris.
Image: Yayoi Kusama, Heaven and Earth, 1991, installation, size vary, group of 40 fabric covered wooden boxes with 285 stuffed forms
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