Every Day I Pray for Love
Yayoi Kusama
OTA FINE ARTS
Piramide Bldg. 3F, 6-6-9 Roppongi, Minatoku, Tokyo, 1060032 Japan 
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March 2 > April 20, 2024
Every Day I Pray for Love, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 65.2 x 53 cm
Every Day I Pray for Love, 2023, Acrylic and marker pen on canvas, 65.2 x 65.2 cm
Every Day I Pray for Love, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 72.7 x 60.6 cm
Ota Fine Arts is pleased to present "Every Day I Pray for Love," an exhibition of new and recent works by Yayoi Kusama. The exhibition, Kusama's first at Ota Fine Arts in three years, will feature 48 paintings from the series "Every Day I Pray for Love" which Kusama has been actively working on since 2021, and two new drawings. The exhibition will travel to Shanghai (May 2024) and Singapore (September 2024).
Yayoi Kusama's 70-year career has been marked by numerous masterpieces. In particular, Kusama's repetitive use of nets and polka dots to fill the canvases and spaces has cemented her title as the 'Queen of Polka Dots'. At the turn of the century, however, she transcended this reputation and gave birth to two series of paintings, "Love Forever" (2004-2007) and "My Eternal Soul" (2009-2021). In the former, she painted figurative subjects such as eyes, profiles, and plants on white canvas with a black marker pen, enveloping the canvas with a brightness that Lynn Zelevansky described as "whimsical and cute, making them difficult to digest”.(i) In the latter where Kusama switched from marker pen to paintbrush. While all kinds of colours jumble over the canvases, conflicting concepts and forms of 'life and death,' 'micro and macro,' 'war and peace,' and 'figurative and abstract,' coalesce into a cohesive whole. With a relentless creative drive and concentration that pervaded these two series of paintings counting close to 900 pieces, Kusama pushed the boundaries of her own artistic expression once again.
ABOUT ARTIST : Yayoi Kusama [Yayoi Kusama] Avant-garde artist and novelist. Born in 1929 in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture. From a young age, Yayoi Kusama experienced visual and auditory hallucinations, and began creating net and polka-dot pattern pictures. In 1957, she went to the United States and began making net paintings and soft sculptures, as well as organizing happenings and developing installations that made use of mirrors and lights, establishing herself as an avant-garde artist. Overcoming various obsessions, she discovered an artistic philosophy of self-obliteration via the obsessive repetition and multiplication of single motifs. She continues to actively devote herself to creating artworks, including her largest painting series "My Eternal Soul" from 2009-2021, amounting to over 800 works in 12 years, as well as a new painting series starting in 2021 titled "Every Day I Pray for Love". She received Japan’s Order of Culture in 2016. Recently, Kusama has held large-scale retrospective exhibitions at various museums throughout the world, including Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, and M+.
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Yayoi Kusama
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