MOMA YAYOI KUSAMA 'Dots Obsession Red/Wht' 2018 Skateboard Skate Deck
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YAYOI KUSAMA (b. 1929, Japan) x MoMA, '(Polka) Dots Obsession (Red/White - BIG)', 2018 Artist Skateboard / Skate Deck This skateboard features a reproduction of the artwork Dots Obsession (2018) by Japanese painter Yayoi Kusama. Made in Canada of 7-ply Canadian Maple Wood. Dimensions (approx.): 31" x 8" x 1/2" (79 x 20.5 x 1.5 cm). © 2018 Yayoi Kusama. BRAND NEW / Excellent condition in original packaging (shrink-wrap no box). This Dots Skateboard is a replica of an artwork specially created by Yayoi Kusama. The original skateboard began as a sample based on a digital rendering of details from Kusama’s work. It was sent to Kusama’s studio in Tokyo for her approval. After reviewing it, Kusama decided it needed to be altered. She then meticulously hand-painted her famous motif over the deck. This final product remains true to the patterns of Kusama's hand-painted piece and is available in an open edition. Dots are a recurring motif in the work of iconic contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama. Enacted as a compulsive expression of infinity, Kusama's dots have come define an entire era of her work. The artist first introduced her spotted gourds in the Japanese pavilion at the 1993 Venice Biennale, and has produced various manifestations since. Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has added four designs to a collection of limited-edition skateboard decks, sold at the Museum of Modern Art Design Store in New York, which are covered in her signature polka dots. The Dots Skateboards are exclusive to the MoMA Design Store, and feature patterns that Kusama hand-painted onto the undersides of the wooded decks. MoMA x Kusama skateboards The boards come in two colour combinations: red dots on a white deck, or black dots on a yellow background. Both options are available with large or small spots. The designs form a continuation of Kusama's "dot" series of artworks, for which she has applied circles of colour to everything from naked bodies to Philip Johnson's Glass House since the 1950s. MoMA x Kusama skateboards Her self-proclaimed obsession with polka dots has also resulted in a variety of immersive installations, where they decorate walls, floors, ceilings and objects in rooms that are otherwise painted in a single hue. MoMA x Kusama skateboards Kusama's skateboards follow previous deck artwork she has created. These include grey-and-white geometric patterns in 2000 called Triptych, which reference her Infinity Nets exhibits, and designs with black dots on yellow backgrounds called Yellow Trees in 1994. MoMA Design Store sells a variety of skateboards, adorned with works by well-known artists like Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Each deck is made from Canadian seven-ply maple wood and comes without wheels. MoMA x Kusama skateboards Kusama, 89, voluntarily resides in a psychiatric institution in Japan, where she continues to work on art projects. For a recent installation, she scattered 1,500 mirrored balls across a hurricane-damaged warehouse in Queens. Last year, The Broad museum in Los Angeles had to impose a 30-second "selfie rule" at an exhibition of her work, because visitors were taking too long posing in her immersive pieces. Kusama, the most important living Japanese artist, has produced a powerful body of work that includes drawing, painting, and sculpture, as well as some of contemporary art's first environmental installations and performance works. Much of her work is characterized by a formal and personal impulse toward repetition and accumulation. Plagued by mental illness since childhood, she has suffered hallucinations and an obsession with certain images, which Kusama has turned into a highly personal visual language applied to painted surfaces and realized in sculptural objects. Born in Japan, Kusama moved to New York in 1957 and lived there for fifteen years. She now resides in Tokyo where she has voluntarily established permanent residence at a psychiatric hospital. Kusama belongs to the same constellation of artists as Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Rebecca Horn and Annette Messager. She has risen to fame on two separate occasions. This occurred initially during the 1960s in New York and Europe. Then once again, in the 1990s, as an artist advanced in years, she returned triumphantly to the Japanese and world art scenes, her success confirmed by a solo exhibition Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama 1958-1968 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1998, demonstrating her influence on the American art of the 1960s. Born in 1929 to a prosperous family in central Japan, Yayoi Kusama was doing pencil drawings that featured her distinctive motif of dots and net-like patterns by the time she was 10. During World War II, she and her classmates worked in a local parachute factory to support the war effort and after the war she entered the Kyoto Municipal School of Arts, graduating in 1949, although she was judged not passing, in drawing. Despite strong efforts from her family to discourage her becoming an artist, Kusama began to exhibit in group exhibitions. Ongoing family disapproval, however, resulted in what Kusama calls her era of mental breakdown. This acknowledgment of her condition and the ongoing struggle against it, became the enabling force behind Kusama's art. Kusama moved to New York in 1957 and in 1959 had her first solo exhibition of five net paintings, vast canvases covered with tiny repeating patterns, at Brata Gallery, a well-regarded Tenth Street cooperative space. The show was an immediate success and Kusama's work received acclaim from artist Donald Judd and writer and critic Dore Ashton. During the 60s she became a member of the New York avant-garde and by 1968, her celebrity rivaled Andy Warhol's. However, despite successful group shows, solo exhibitions, and wild public performances, the death of her friend, artist Joseph Cornell, in 1972 provoked a psychic crisis and an ensuing return of her mental illness deepened her state of isolation and dragged the artist into a state of depression. In 1973, Kusama returned to Japan and in February 1975 she entered the Seiwa Hospital in Tokyo, a private psychiatric hospital known for using art therapy to treat neuroses, where she continues to live today. Kusama maintains a studio outside the hospital grounds and makes art with the help of assistants. She has worked for more than forty years in a variety of media, exploring themes of accumulation, repetition and obsession. In addition to her visual art, installations and performances, Kusama has written several fictional novels and composed 13 pieces of music. Yayoi Kusama's art is always autobiographical, speaking of a deep psychological and sexual context. One of the most important motifs in her work is dots and their absence, painted nets, whose empty spaces reveal the trace of a dot and call forth the negative of space and of experience. The dot motif also appears both in the space of her images on canvas and in her three-dimensional installations. Another recurrent motif is phalluses representing the artist's obsessions and sexual context. Related story Yayoi Kusama's life and career illustrated for new children's book These have been exhibited at museums and galleries around the world, including David Zwirner in New York, Louisiana in Denmark, and Victoria Miro in London.
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