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Depression, suicide attempts, psychedelic visions, her artis- tic journey vibrates to the rhythm of the phantasmagorical uni- verse of her consciousness.
Her sufferings give life to her unreal world where patterns and lights are repeated in infinite spaces. For Yayoi Kusama, each being is a pea among millions of other peas on the canvas of the universe.
The hallucinatory projection exhibited in Bergamo plays with mul- ticolored light bulbs which multiply on walls covered with mirrors and suspended from a ceiling like black water.
Yayoi Kusama’s magnificent neurotic obsession uses art as therapy. The artist transcends her issues in this mode of expression.
Brilliant madness from a pop icon who inspires and fascinates well beyond her terrestrial limits...a true intergalactic artist.