Yayoi Kusama: All About My Love草間彌生:松本美術館特展圖錄

　　日本最重要的藝術家、當代藝術教母—草間彌生2018年松本美術館特展「ALL ABOUT MY LOV私?愛????」展覽圖錄。
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　　「圓點女王」草間彌生，被稱為日本現存的經典藝術家，出生於日本長野縣松本市，在1957年移居美國紐約市，並開始展露她占有領導地位的前衛藝術創作。2018年松本市美術館在草間彌生誕生之地舉辦一場特別展覽《ALL ABOUT MY LOVE》，展示作品多達180件，也是目前為止草間彌生作品數最多的展覽。
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　　2019年在草間彌生90歲生日之際，首次以英文出版2018年當年已銷售一空的特展圖錄，超過350幅彩圖，並收錄松本市美術館館長Akira Shibutami專文分析，回顧草間彌生歷年來的重要作品。
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　　圖錄特別介紹草間彌生從松本市時期、紐約時期、回到日本後的生平之外，也將藝術展覽會中展覽的畫作收錄在這本特集裡，涵蓋草間彌生一生的藝術展覽與草間彌生對一生所有的熱愛。包括早期的藝術創作，為了逃避眼疾所產生的幻覺，徜徉於藝術創作之中；早年在紐約的藝術創作如知名作品《無限之網》(Infinity Nets)與《圓點》(Polka Dots)；網羅80年代與90年代的紐約歲月與威尼斯雙年展參展作品。當然還有持續進行的《我永遠的靈魂》 (My eternal soul) 系列。圖錄以年代順序進行，並提供細節說明。
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　　Avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama’s matchless creativity and originality have been captivating the world since she moved from Matsumoto, her hometown in Nagano, Japan, to the USA in 1958. In the last ten years alone, her retrospective exhibitions in four major European and American museums, including Tate Modern, London, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, have seen record attendance.

　　Kusama has continuously innovated and re-invented her style. Well-known for her repeating dot patterns, her art encompasses an astonishing variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, film, performance and immersive installation. It ranges from works on paper featuring intense semi-abstract imagery, to soft sculpture known as ‘Accumulations’, to her ‘Infinity Net’ paintings, made up of carefully repeated arcs of paint built up into large patterns. This comprehensive publication, originally published to accompany a sell-out exhibition at Matsumoto City Museum of Art, offers a comprehensive overview of Kusama’s entire career, including works from her youth, when she indulged in drawing in order to escape from her hallucinations; paintings made when she was based in New York, including ‘Infinity Nets’ and ‘Polka Dots’; works from the1980s and 1990s, when she participated in the Venice Biennale; and last but not least, the ongoing large-scale series ‘My Eternal Soul’. The plates are in chronological order and followed by detailed captions.