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Yayoi Kusama

Opens: 09/02/2012 Closes: 05/06/2012 Tate Modern, London
Having influenced pop art's leading man, Andy Warhol, Kusama's immersive environments, signature net paintings and almost hallucinatory practice have placed her at the forefront of Japanese art since the 1940's. Including her largest mirrored room to date, the sequence of sensorial spaces highlights decades of innovation. For more information visit: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/yayoikusama/default.shtm Buy: https://tickets.tate.org.uk/selectshow.asp
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Guardian“Kusama is a phenomenon...” Kusama's best trick has been to stay alive, but more than that, her art has a palpable energy and a sometimes malevolent intensity – however playful it seems. It has a kind of truth...
 
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The Telegraph“Enjoyable and evocative exhibition...” A very interesting artist much of whose best work – from “paintings” created from airmail stickers to “clouds” created from amorphous silver cushions – is, paradoxically, admirably sane...
 
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Financial Times“A dot-and-prick parody of recent cultural history...” Within that personal iconography she has traversed art’s major trends with such chameleon skill that this show reads like a dot-and-prick parody of recent cultural history: witty, sometimes outright funny, though rarely touching a nerve...
 
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