Yayoi Kusama – Self-Obliteration No. 2 (1967)

Louisiana poster with the work, Self-Obliteration No. 2, (1967) , by Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama, (b. 1929). The presentation of Kusama's life's work at Louisiana, Kusama - in Infinity, in 2016-2017, was the first retrospective exhibition of the artist's work in Scandinavia, and became one of the most visited exhibitions in Louisiana's history.

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Kusama is a force in modern art - all her own, deeply original, immensely popular. The poster's motif, Self-obliteration no. 2 , is from Kusama's formative period in 1960s New York, where new artistic movements such as pop art and minimalism were taking shape.

Kusama was part of this milieu, but from her position as a non-Western, female artist, she developed a completely distinctive artistic universe that today stands as a significant and deeply original contribution to post-war art.

In recent decades, Kusama has become world-renowned for her artistic universe of brightly colored, widely branched patterns that cover the surfaces of paintings and sculptures and spread out into extensive installations where entire rooms, walls, floors and ceilings are covered in soft shapes and dots in strong contrasts of black and yellow or white and red.

In the middle of this boundless visual universe stands Kusama herself: a distinctively present artist persona, who not only stands behind the works, but also in front of them - in photographs often dressed in clothes in the same pattern as the works, an artistic camouflage strategy that makes her visually one with her art.

Dimensions: W: 60 x H: 45 cm

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Frame: 12mm
Material: Frame in solid oak and with high-quality acrylic glass.