The Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Yayoi Kusama Retrospective
Summary
Suzanne Landau is the initiator and the curator of a monumental show of the work of Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929). Presenting now at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Landau discusses this landmark survey spanning more than eight decades of artistic production.
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Tel Aviv Museum of Art — Israel’s first art museum, founded in 1932 — is a leading and influential institution dedicated to the preservation and display of modern and contemporary art from Israel and abroad. The Museum is a critical agent for the arts and culture in Israel, offering its visitors a multicultural experience. An active part of the vibrant metropolis, it is a must-visit for international and local crowds.
Unfortunately, no. I was supposed to meet her when I started to work on the exhibition but because of Covid it was not possible. But I still hope to meet her. Maybe now when it’ll be easier to travel, I plan to go to Japan and I hope she’ll be still with us and I will be able to meet her.
It’s very easy. You can order it through online, I think. I hope. Actually, it’s already the second edition. The very first, I mean, 1000 was sold out, now this is the second. So, try to do it online, through the museum site.
Because, she had, as I mentioned, when she was already a child, she has those hallucination. And she was mentally not really stable and she was very much aware of it. She also knew about her mental situation and she knew how to use it. This was also successful source of her, I mean, kind of inspiration for her art. But, and she saw that she will be much safer and, if she will be in a mental hospital. And this was her … She did it voluntarily. And probably, it’s good for her that she is somehow still under control. Even so every day, you know, so studio is just opposite on across the street. And every morning, until today she goes to the studio and in the evening she comes back to the hospital. But because her awareness of her situation, this also helped her. And she wanted to be free of it, not to be all the time, you know, worried that maybe her situation will be not so good, the health and so on.