Yayoi kusama autobiography book

A concise and engrossing narrative of the life of one of today’s greatest living artists who transformed a psychosomatic illness into art.

I was drawn to the work of Yayoi Kusama when I visited one of her Infinity Rooms at the Art Gallery of Ontario recently.

I picked up her autobiography the same day at the art gallery’s gift shop.

I am deeply terrified by the obsessions crawling over my body, whether they come from within me or from outside.

Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama.

This is a fascinating autobiography.

This engaging memoir reveals her to be a fascinating, maverick figure, channelling her obsessive neuroses into an art that transcends cultural barriers.

The book follows the artist from her repressive childhood in Japan to New York, where, despite having no connections, she fell in with an influential crowd.

Repetition and Multiplication is her approach, whether it be the mirror balls in the Infinity Room or the multitude of polka dots of her first exhibition in New York in 1959, or the profusion of penises that followed and send her down the road into the sexual revolution of the 60’s and ‘70’s.

Kusama served her time as a starving artist in New York in her early years, living in a garret and eating potatoes, and all the while creating, creating, creating.

From a young age she could see auras of individuals and heard the voices of animals and plants; she saw hallucinations of lights. Painti