DETAIL
Jud Yalkut and Yayoi Kusama, Japan, 1967, 23’
SYNOPSIS
Yayoi Kusama enters the international art world in the sixties, right after her removal from Japan to New York. She receives acclaim with ‘infinity net’ paintings and huge installations, where the visitor gets intermingled with thousands of colorful small - mostly phallic – textile objects. At the same time she get famous because of the 'succès de scandale' of her public happenings, where naked woman and man act in the streets of new York. As she got more active, she was influenced by an anti-Vietnam war movement and American Presidential election and social elements were added to her art.
The experimental filmer Jud Yalkut who had collaborated with Nam June Paik made a film about Kusama through a specific editing of the many aspects of her work.
