Yayoi Kusama – ‘Look Now, See Forever’

Overview

Even saying Yayoi Kusama’s name makes me happy – try it, I swear it will do it for you too. On top of this we now get to see this highly esteemed and innovative artist’s happy, colourful work on display at GOMA.

The new exhibition titled ‘Look Now, See Forever’ is immersed in style, with GOMA being taken over by Kusama’s dramatic sculptures and paintings, as well as film projection and installation.

Kusama uses colour, pattern, form and space in a most interesting way, challenging the viewer to see the world completely differently. The artist herself sees the world in a different way – she suffers from severe OCD; dots are her major obsession, and art is her therapy. Kusama lives in Tokyo in a psychiatric hospital, moving each day between the studio and the facility, finding peace in this way of living.

Her brilliant 80 year-old mind has created some of the most significant art in the last hundred years. My favourite Kusama work ever is her dotty penis couches: basically couches with stuffed penises all over them and covered with dots (although I’m not sure how relaxing it would be to lie on the couch among a sea of penises). We can only wait with baited breath to see what she has created for this intense exhibition.