Rio de Janeiro - Ill artist still works
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Nude body painting, phallic symbols — and letters to “my hero” Richard Nixon.
Artists rarely come more eclectic and eccentric than Yayoi Kusama, an Andy Warhol contemporary turned octogenarian recluse.
It’s been four decades since Kusama returned to Japan from the United States and 36 years since she voluntarily chose to live in a psychiatric institution.
But the artist continues to produce new works, and “she’s been able to reinvent herself again and again,” said Francis Morris, who curated Kusama’s 2012 retrospective at London’s Tate Modern.
Now Kusama’s works grace Rio de Janeiro’s Centro Cultural, which on Saturday launched a three-month major exhibit entitled “Infinite Obsession.”
The Matsumoto-born painter and sculptor found her niche in the heady days of the 1960s and early 1970s in New York, after leaving a Japan she found suffocating. Kusama, 84, said she realized as a child she had a mental disorder.
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