Yayoi Kusama

This catalogue documents the work Yayoi Kusama showed in 2013 at David Zwirner, her first exhibition with the gallery, which filled its three New York locations. The pieces are new, and the book follows the show room by room.

It opens with colour plates of large square paintings in bright colours. They belong to a recent body of work and hint at spheres and basic forms of life, mixing representational and nonrepresentational subjects.

The video installation Song of a Manhattan Suicide Addict comes next. Kusama performs a song she composed while an animated slideshow of selected artworks plays behind her. Two mirrored infinity rooms appear in the same section.

The first, Infinity Mirrored Room-The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, is a cube of mirror panels with a shallow reflecting pool for a floor. Hundreds of multicoloured LED lights hang at different heights and flicker on and off like strobes.

Love Is Calling is a darkened mirrored room. Inflatable tentacle-like forms covered in polka dots rise from the floor and ceiling, slowly shifting colour. The book records it as one of her most immersive environments to date.