Yayoi Kusama: Give Me Lovedocuments the artist’s most recent exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, which marked the US debut ofThe Obliteration Room, an all-white, domestic interior that viewers are invited to cover with dot stickers of various sizes and colors. TakingThe Obliteration Room as its centerpiece, this catalogue reveals, in vivid large-scale plates, the transformation of the space from a clean white interior to a stunningly saturated room, with ceilings, walls, and furniture covered in myriad multicolored stickers put there by viewers over the course of the exhibition.

The catalogue also includes beautiful reproductions of Kusama’s new large-format paintings from My Eternal Soulseries. Ranging from bright and densely pixelated forms, to umber figures with darker blues and muted oranges, these paintings demonstrate the artist’s striking command of color, and her exceptional control over balance and contrast. Bold brushstrokes hover between figuration and abstraction; vibrant, animated, and intense, these paintings introduce their own powerful pictorial logic, at once contemporary and universal. The catalogue continues with a selection of new, largePumpkin sculptures, a form that Kusama has been exploring since her studies in Japan in the 1950s, and which gained prominence in the 1980s, continuing to remain an essential part of her practice. Made of shiny stainless steel and featuring painted dots or dot-shaped perforations that recallThe Obliteration Room, these immersive works seem created on human scale, with the tallest measuring 70 inches (178 cm). Vibrant plates capture how color, shape, size, and surface merge in these sculptures and mesmerize the viewer. Texts include a “Hymn to Yayoi Kusama” by art critic and poet Akira Tatehata and a poem by the artist herself.

March 22, 2016
120 pages, 10 x 12 inches
ISBN:9781941701218
Hardcover
David Zwirner Books