2024年9月20日 · Yayoi Kusama is widely known for being a precursor of pop art and an influencer to many great artists such as Andy Warhol. Yayoi Kusama made her first sculpture in 1994 which was a solid yellow colored pumpkin with a clear spot pattern.

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2024年9月20日 · The symbolism of the pumpkin in Kusama’s art. Known in Japan as Kabocha, Pumpkins are positive images to Kusama because they represent a cheerful piece of her troubled childhood in Matsumoto. As a young girl, Kusama spent hours drawing pumpkins. To her, pumpkins are representative of stability, comfort, and modesty 12. According to Kusama ...

Kusama’s signature dotted pumpkins have since appeared as works on paper, handheld figurines, towering sculptures, and in the artist’s immersive infinity room installations. To Kusama, the pumpkins are warm and humorous motifs with figures that, at times, feel human.

In the museum’s gardens and courtyard, you’ll not only find a tall yellow pumpkin akin to the one in Naoshima, but also Kusama’s towering sculptures of exotic plants and flowers.

2023年3月23日 · On an old pier on Naoshima Island, Japan, Yayoi Kusama's largest Pumpkin sculpture was designed with the knowledge that it would be the first to be displayed outside. Pumpkin was first shown at the 1994 Naoshima exhibition, Open Air '94 "Out of Bounds" --Contemporary Art in the Seascape--.

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2024年11月12日 · Yayoi Kusama began exploring the pumpkin pattern in the 1980s, declining it into sculptures and installations that made her iconic Pumpkin series emerge. Bronze, fiberglass, stainless steel, resin and ceramic: each material selected by the artist plays a decisive role in the way the work dialogues with light, space and the environment.

2024年7月9日 · This week, London’s Serpentine Galleries unveiled a nineteen-foot pumpkin sculpture by the superstar contemproary artist Yayoi Kusama. Installed in Kensington Gardens, the yellow polka-dotted pumpkin is now open to the public through November 3, 2024. Kusama, who lives and works in Tokyo, turned ninety-five earlier this year.