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Art will save the world. Yayoi Kusama f rmly believes to life from the hallucinations that have been tormenting
this, the eccentric Japanese avant-garde artist, is de- me since childhood and that I can translate on the can-
termined with her polka-dotted canvases to save the vas or through my sculptures”. Sculptures including the
world, simply through love. Love for painting, as for giant yellow pumpkin with black polka dots, perhaps her
poetry and surreal novels, that culminate in the Yayoi most symbolic and world-famous work, along with the
Kusama Museum in Tokyo, also showed through the line of accessories that in 2012 made with Louis Vuitton,
exhibition “Creation is a Solitary Pursuit, Love Is What “scratching” in her own way the monogram among the
Brings You Closer to Art “, the fantastic world of Yayoi most celebrated in the world. From fashion to art up to
Kusama. The ultra-eighty-year-old Japanese artist, who music: the eclectic artist seems really unstoppable, si-
has for years been living in a psychiatric clinic, makes gning the “Lovetown” video of Peter Gabriel song, from
no mystery of her fantastic obsession for that recurring the “Philadelphia” soundtrack. Always with that redun-
graphic sign: to the human eye just a funny polka dot, dant graphic, stretched, distorted almost, as a talented
but full of strong and psychedelic colors as well of a story-teller of a very original and fantastic story: a jour-
whole universe of complex meanings. “My art comes ney to the wonderland of Yayoi Kusama.