Yayoi Kusama, Every Day I Pray for Love, 2023, Acrylic and marker pen on canvas, 65.2 x 65.2 cm, ©YAYOIKUSAMA
“Every Day I Pray for Love” is an exhibition of new and recent works by Yayoi Kusama. The travelling exhibition, Kusama’s first at Ota Fine Arts in three years, began from Tokyo (March 2024) to Shanghai (May 2024) and makes its final stop in Singapore (September 2024). It will feature over 50 paintings from the series “Every Day I Pray for Love” and several drawings, which Kusama has been actively working on since 2021, as well as her recent wall relief sculptures, SOULS OF WOMEN THAT CONTINUE FOREVER (2019), which are a new addition to the Singapore presentation.
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 developed two series of paintings, Love Forever (2004-2007) and My Eternal Soul (2009-2021), in which she painted figurative subjects such as eyes, profiles, and plants. While all kinds of colours jumble across 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.
Venue: Ota Fine Arts, 7 Lock Road, #02-13 Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108935
When: 7 Sep - 19 Oct 2024,
By: Ota Fine Arts
