YAYOI KUSAMA

Yavoi Kusama is one of the most important post-war and contemporary artists, with exhibitions all over the world. Her work is not only of historical importance, it also appeals to a young and broad audience, and defies art concepts such as Minimal an
d Pop Art.

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provides an overview of Kusama''s earliest performative activities, staged especially for the camera, with previously unpublished photos.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 fashio
n, 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. A power one might not expect from a small Japanese woman.