Yayoi Kusama - The Dutch Years - MER. Books 2023
A complete documentation of Yayoi Kusama's early performative activities in the Netherlands in the 1960s-70s, through a collection of previously unpublished photographs and written and visual accounts from eyewitnesses, showcasing her unique style and engagement with the emerging sexual revolution.
This publication provides an overview of Kusama's earliest performative activities, staged especially for the camera, with previously unpublished photos. Naked and painted with dots, dressed in her self-designed fashion, posing in the streets of Amsterdam, in a time of an emerging sexual revolution. Written and visual accounts by eye-witnesses offer us a detailed insight into the colorful and erotic world of Yayoi Kusama for the first time, but also show us her particularly compelling, persuasive power to engage people in her universe.
Texts by Tijs Visser, Catrien Schreuder, Caroline de Westenholz.
Texts by Tijs Visser, Catrien Schreuder, Caroline de Westenholz.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam in 2023-2024.
192p - EN - 27x22cm - hardcover - new