VietNamNet Bridge – The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam will hold contemporary art exhibition “Yayoi Kusama: Obsessions” from Saturday until July 28 in Hanoi in part to celebrate Japan-Vietnam Friendship Year 2013, the foundation announced in a statement.

An installation artwork of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. -- Photo: Courtesy of organizers

Remarkable lady Kusama, who is in her early eighties, will hold her exhibit at the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam (27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem) and it includes a variety of her famous immersive installations.

Half of the courtyard will be covered with 1,500 silver balls to install her legendary installation “Narcissus Garden” and nine huge objects with polka dots entitled “Guidepost to the New Space” will be arranged on the other half and the garage.

The main exhibition hall will be turned into a room for the installation “Dots Obsessions” in which visitors can enjoy popular installations with mirrors, dots and balloons.

The small kitchen room in the appendix building will be dedicated to the relatively new installation “I’m Here, but Nothing” where you can experience the illusive confusion of two and three dimensions with dizzy illuminated dots.

Kusama, a Japanese avant-garde sculptor, painter and novelist, received the National Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.

In over seven decades as an artist, Kusama has worked in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, film, performance and installation. Having continuously innovated and re-invented her style, her obsessive repetitions and patterns of dots have been widely celebrated and become her trademark.

Kusama has received numerous awards including the Order of Arts and Letters (2003/France), the Order of the Rising Sun (2006/Japan), the Praemium Imperiale (2006/Japan) and Person of Cultural Merit (2009/Japan).

Her solo art exhibitions have been held at Museum of Modern Art in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Centre Goerges Pompidou (Paris) and Tate Modern (London).

It is normal for her artworks to fetch millions of dollars with pieces for going for between US$4 million to US$6 million at recent auctions, the highest price of an active female artist in the world.

Admission is free.

Source: SGT