This independent modern and contemporary art museum is located next to the Van Gogh and Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art.
While the majority of the works exhibited here were created by Banksy and David Arsham. There's a small room devoted entirely to ...
Yayoi Kusama - the most successful living female artist.
Boasting the highest auction prices of any living woman artist. Her piece White No. 28 sold for $7.1 million in 2014. The highest price for any woman artist, living or dead, belongs to her mentor Georgia O'Keeffe. Who's Jimson Weed/ White Flower No. 1 sold for $44.4 million at Sotheby's in 2014.
Yayoi Kusama, White No.28 (1960). Photo: Courtesy of Christie’s.
At the Museum the Night of Stars and Pumpkin are exhibited in a completely transformed space. Her signature and an iconic style consistent of polka dots and pumpkins invite the viewer to enter a world of imagination. Hugely inspired by her hallucinations that occurred when she was as little as ten years old, as a way of coping with a rough reality of war and challenging home environment. Where her creative endeavours were constantly discouraged. The art is a way to find freedom and we become absorbed in her magic as soon as we enter the exhibition space devoted entirely to this visionary artist.
Yayoi Kusama, fear of sex and it's creative shape.
The artist as the youngest in the Kusama family was assigned to spy on her unfaithful father.
Interviewed by the Financial Times she confessed "I don't like sex. I had an obsession with sex. When I was a child, my father had lovers and I experienced seeing him. My mother sent me to spy on him. I didn't want to have sex with anyone for years [...] The sexual obsession and fear of sex sit side by side in me." The artist's way of coping with a trauma was to create imaginative, cosy and phallic installations.
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Infinity Mirror Room – Phalli’s Field
Photo: Courtesy of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
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